[PDF.50tr] History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

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 | #1093623 in Books |  1996-06-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,1.63 | File type: PDF | 463 pages

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||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good Book|By JUJU|It is a detailed and informing book about the history of time. It is relates the past with the present, illustrating the political, social , economic and cultural meanings associated with the development of clocks and the notion of time.|12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting subject, less interesting writi|From Library Journal|Today it is impossible to think of a life unregulated by clocks or a day structured other than in 24 60-minute hours. In the Middle Ages it was different, however, and changing. Historian Dohrn-van Rossum (Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany) examin

In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. Detailing the clock's effects on social activity, he presents a vivid picture of a society regulated by the precise measurement of identical hours.

"In tracing the evolution of time consciousness with scholarship and skill . . . Dohrn-va...

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