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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Unveiling the Jewelers' clock
- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States
- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America
- Republican heirlooms, instruments of modern time discipline: pocket watches during and after the Civil War
- Noon, November 18, 1883: the abolition of local time, the debut of a national standard
- American synchronicity: turn-of-the-century tower clocks, street clocks, and time balls
- Monuments and monstrosities: the apex of the public clock era.