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Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life /
McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks. While noting the difficulties in regulating and synchronising so many timepieces, the book expands our understanding of the development of modern time discipline, delving i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Illinois :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks. While noting the difficulties in regulating and synchronising so many timepieces, the book expands our understanding of the development of modern time discipline, delving into the ways we have standardised time and describing how timekeepers have served as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that does not merely value time, but regards access to time as a natural-born right, a privilege of being an American. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781299276598 1299276598 9780226015057 022601505X |