[PDF.67ze] Keeping Watch: A History of American Time

Keeping Watch: A History of American Time

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 | #1731086 in Books |  Viking |  1990-07-25 |  1990-07-25 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.00 x1.00 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Not recommended.|By Jayfred|Not interesting.|From Publishers Weekly|O'Malley here identifies an epic theme: the shift in American consciousness from a "natural" to an "artificial" accounting of the hours. How did Americans wean themselves from insisting that clocks and time-reckoning scrupulously follow th

Focusing on the period from 1820 to 1920, Keeping Watch details the far-reaching changes in American society brought about by the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time - from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time to regional time zones, synchronized watches, and factory punch clocks. Michael O'Malley shows how the pressures of industrialization, the emergence of the telegraph, and the spread of railroads led to a demand for uniform, consist...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Keeping Watch: A History of American Time   |  Michael O'Malley.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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