The Global Transformation of Time : : 1870–1950 /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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