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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950
Harvard University Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-674-28614-6 | eISBN: 978-0-674-91599-2 Library of Congress Classification QB223.O35 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 389.17
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Globalization | Sociological aspects | Systems and standards | Time | World See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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