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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. National Times in a Globalizing World --   |t 2. Saving Social Time --   |t 3. From National to Uniform Time around the Globe --   |t 4. A Battle of Colonial Times --   |t 5. Comparing Time Management --   |t 6. Islamic Calendar Times --   |t 7. One Calendar for All --   |t Conclusion --   |t Archives and Repositories --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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