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17%OFFVanessa Ogle - The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 - 9780674286146 - V9780674286146
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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950

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Description for The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 Hardcover. 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." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
As new networks of 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 in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time-historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal-provided a basis for comparing the world's nations and societies, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674286146
SKU
V9780674286146
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About Vanessa Ogle
Vanessa Ogle is Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews for The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950
With impressive breadth, imagination, and originality, Ogle has produced an important and genuinely global history of time that reveals the rhythms, directions, unevenness, and contradictory consequences of what we now call globalization.
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan The powerful lesson of Ogle's book is how the gradual global transformation of time over the course of the twentieth century came to suit ... Read more

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