The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogleâ€™s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-12
Format Kindle eBook

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