TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ogle,Vanessa
TI  - The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 
SN  - 9780674915992
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Time
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Systems and standards
KW  - History
KW  - Time--Systems and standards--History
KW  - HISTORY / World
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674915992
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674915992
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674915992/original
ER  -