The Global Transformation of Time : : 1870–1950 / / Vanessa Ogle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ogle, Vanessa,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. National Times in a Globalizing World --; 2. Saving Social Time --; 3. From National to Uniform Time around the Globe --; 4. A Battle of Colonial Times --; 5. Comparing Time Management --; 6. Islamic Calendar Times --; 7. One Calendar for All --; Conclusion --; Archives and Repositories --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674915992; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674915992
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Vanessa Ogle.

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.