{"product_id":"nothing-happened-a-history-paperback","title":"Nothing Happened: A History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan A. Crane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that \"nothing happened\"? Why might we feel as if \"nothing is the way it was\"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines \"Nothing\" as something we have known and can remember.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nothing\" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some--possibly considerable--mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital \"n.\" But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens--for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to \"know Nothing\" or to \"do Nothing,\" we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan A. Crane\u003c\/b\u003e has been a professor of history at the University of Arizona since 1995. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCollecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and editor of \u003ci\u003eMuseums and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764177174816,"sku":"9781503640115","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d236343f18bc89627f105c3ab2ad7ae6.webp?v=1780244859","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nothing-happened-a-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}