Marking Modern Times

Marking Modern Times
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780226014869
ISBN-13 : 022601486X
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Book Synopsis Marking Modern Times by : Alexis McCrossen

Download or read book Marking Modern Times written by Alexis McCrossen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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