Format:
1 Online-Ressource (312 p)
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24 halftones
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780226676821
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Narratives -- 1 Looking to Our Ancestors -- 2 Looking Around the World -- 3 The World Beneath Our Feet -- Part Two: Origins -- 4 Ad Fontes -- 5 In the Beginning -- 6 Under False Pretenses -- 7 Through the Proscenium Arch -- Part Three: Time in Transit -- 8 On Pilgrimage -- 9 Across the Divide -- 10 At Sea -- Part Four: Unfinished Business -- 11 Looking Forward -- 12 How We Got Here -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index
Content:
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain’s most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few. Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226676821
