Time and Power

Praise for Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom A masterly synthesis of [the] many disparate strands in a long and ultimately forlorn history. --Richard Overy, Daily Telegraph Clark's book is brilliantly constructed, dazzling in its scholarship, and immensely stimulating. It shows how Prussian and German rulers located their exercise of power in conceptions of their relationship to past and future, casts new light on the ways in which belief in the nature of the state developed, and describes how the destruction of faith in the state following the First World War gave rise to new and dangerous millennial ideas of the Nazis. --Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 Praise for Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers One of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published. --Max Hastings, Sunday Times Easily the best book ever written on this subject. --Washington Post Superb. --Fareed Zakaria A masterpiece. --Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review Highly original and impeccably researched. Time and Power is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of temporality. --Anson Rabinbach, coeditor of The Third Reich Sourcebook A rich and innovative contribution to temporal studies and political history. --Fran ois Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time A masterpiece by one of the most renowned historians in the world. --J rgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century