Shaping the day : a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 /
Overturning many common perceptions of the past - for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related - this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life. - ;Timekeeping is an essent...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the measured heart
- Clocks, clock times, and social change
- 'Not everyone occupies the same now' : reconceptualizing clock time
- Clock times in medieval and early modern Bristol
- The provision of clock time in pre-modern England
- Clock times in everyday lives
- Precision in everyday lives
- 'Posted within shot of the grave' : seafaring times
- The pursuit of precision
- Clocks from nowhere? : John Harrison in context
- Some concluding remarks.