Global transformation of time, the: 1870–1950
Auteur :
Ogle, Vanessa
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674286146
Date de publication :
12 oct. 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
553 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.