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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogle, Vanessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Systems and standards--History.

Time.

Time--Sociological aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)

ISBN:

9780674737020

0674737024

9780674915992

0674915992

OCLC:

1029815966