Global Transformation of Time

€42,95
2 sandėlyje

Vanessa Ogle

288 psl.

2015 m.

Kietas viršelis

Brūkšninis kodas: 9780674286146

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.

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