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"This new and unexampled way of writing the history of future times" : the rise and fall of empires and the acceleration of history in Samuel Madden's eighteenth-century Memoirs from the future
53-88 p.
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ISSN: 2281-1141
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In this issue
- Introduction : imperial times : towards a history of imperial uses of time
- "To imitate the ancients, having adopted the corrections of the moderns" : Scipione Maffei's Consiglio politico
- "This new and unexampled way of writing the history of future times" : the rise and fall of empires and the acceleration of history in Samuel Madden's eighteenth-century Memoirs from the future
- Investing in the enlightenment : the financial revolution and the global origins of the enlightenment in the Spanish empire
- "Sometimes, the past is the present" : electoral reforms, the working classes, and the British empire