The global transformation of time, 1870-1950 /
This book is a revisionist account of attempts to unify clock times, calendars and social time, and a methodological intervention in discussions about writing global and transnational history. The book uses the reform of time between 1870 and 1950 as a lens through which to understand the dynamics o...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- National times in a globalizing world
- Saving social time
- From national to uniform time around the globe
- A battle of colonial times
- Comparing time management
- Islamic calendar times
- One calendar for all
- Conclusion.