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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674915992
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674915992

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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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 many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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