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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 Vanessa Ogle
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950
Vanessa Ogle
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.
260 pages
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 12 de outubro de 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674286146 |
| Editoras | Harvard University Press |
| Páginas | 288 |
| Dimensões | 244 × 165 × 26 mm · 584 g |