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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950

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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 - Ogle, Vanessa
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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.

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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; London

ISBN-13: 9780674286146

Hardcover