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In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.

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Marking Modern Times
  • Author : Alexis McCrossen
  • Release : 01 May 2013
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN : 9780226014869
  • Genre : History
  • Total Page : 272 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 11,7 Mb

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