Engaging with the past and present : the relationship between past and present across the disciplines /
edited by Paul M. Dover.
- volumes cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Engaging with the past and the present : an introduction / Paul M. Dover -- Reflections on March Bloch's Maxim / Felipe Brandi -- When does the present become the past? / Jeremi Suri -- Does the past matter? in the shadow of the growing footprint of the future / Zoltán Simon -- The big history of past, present and future / Craig Benjamin -- Historical faith and faithful history / Nicolas Steeves, SJ -- Confucian culture and the imminence of the past / Yves Vendé -- Past, present, and heritage / William Stoutamire -- The continuum between the past and present : an art historian's view / Gregory T. Clark -- Digging into the human past : archeology, time, and the object / Martin Porr -- Archives : preserving the documentary past / Randolph C. Head -- Earth time : lessons from the "boring billions" / Hilairy Hartnett -- The past and present in environmental science / Ellen Wohl -- The past and present of the cosmos / David Garofalo -- Disengaging with the past : extinction and resets of the biosphere / Roy Plotnick -- The human deep past (paleoanthropology) / Deborah Olszewski.
"This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past: not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology). Engaging with the Past and Present is full of insights and ideas for anyone seeking to understand the past or employ it as evidence for understanding present realities"--