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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
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 12, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674286146 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 244 × 165 × 26 mm · 584 g |