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Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen.
LIBRA TS543.U6 M396 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCrossen, Alexis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clocks and watches--United States--History--19th century.
- Clocks and watches.
- Clocks and watches--United States--History--20th century.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226014869
- 022601486X
- OCLC:
- 809910985
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