Millennium III, century XXI : a retrospective on the future /
As a new century and millennium approach, the world braces itself for a frenzied outpouring of popular excitement, tabloid predictions, and religious hysteria, all egged on by a strong dose of mass media attention. Fortunately, historian Peter Stearns has supplied the antidote with this witty and in...
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Millennium in Perspective
- 2. The Struggle for a Christian Calendar
- 3. The Year 1000: Real and Imagined Precedents
- 4. Refining the Calendar: Visions and Centuries, 1200-1850
- 5. Apocalypse Now?
- 6. Assessing and Forecasting Millennia: Beyond the Apocalypse
- 7. Transition: From Millennia to Centuries
- 8. Hailing the 20th Century: Fireworks and Fin de Siecle
- 9. Where Is Our Fin de Siecle?
- 10. The 20th Century: Guidelines for the Retrospective
- 11. Forecasting the 21st Century
- 12. Conclusion.