Description
| Product ID: | 9780674286146 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Global Transformation of Time |
| Subtitle: | 1870–1950 |
| Authors: | Author: Vanessa Ogle |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Globalization, History of science, Time (chronology), time systems and standards, Globalization, History of science, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-10-12 |
