Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time CapsuleUniversity of Chicago Press, 12 de jun. de 2019 - 384 páginas 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 remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures. |
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Temperance Insurgence and Memory in San Francisco 1879 | 69 |
The Centurial Time Vessels as Heterodox History 19001901 | 98 |
Posteritism and the Political Uses of the Future 19001901 | 145 |
The Modern Historic Records Association 19111914 | 191 |
TechnoCorporate Appropriations of the Time Vessel 19251940 | 235 |
The Vicissitudes of Transtemporal Communication | 287 |
The Time Capsules Futures | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 311 |
List of Abbreviations | 315 |
Notes | 317 |
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