Remembrance of Things Present : The Invention of the Time Capsule /

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yablon, Nick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Temas:
History > Sources > Social aspects > United States.
Time capsules > Social aspects > United States.
Time capsules > United States > History.
HISTORY / General.
archives.
cities.
communication.
future.
material culture.
media.
memory.
modernity.
public history.
temporality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Memory, History, Posterity
  • 1. Safeguarding the Nation: Photographic Offerings to the Bicentennial, 1876- 1889
  • 2. "P.O. Box to the Future": Temperance, Insurgence, and Memory in San Francisco, 1879
  • 3. Annals of the Present, the Local, and the Everyday: The Centurial Time Vessels as Heterodox History, 1900- 1901
  • 4. Seeds of Hope: "Posteritism" and the Political Uses of the Future, 1900- 1901
  • 5. "A Living History of the Times": The Modern Historic Records Association, 1911- 1914
  • 6. Mausoleums of Civilization: Techno- Corporate Appropriations of the Time Vessel, 1925- 1940
  • 7. Breaking the Seal: The Vicissitudes of Transtemporal Communication
  • Epilogue: The Time Capsule's Futures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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