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100 1 _aMcCrossen, Alexis.
245 1 0 _aMarking modern times :
_ba history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life /
_cAlexis McCrossen.
264 1 _aChicago :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c2013.
300 _axvi, 255 pages :
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_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-246) and index.
505 0 _aUnveiling the jewelers' clock -- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States -- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America -- Republican heirlooms, instruments of modern time discipline: pocket watches during and after the Civil War -- Noon, November 18, 1883: the abolition of local time, the debut of a national standard -- American synchronicity: turn-of-the-century tower clocks, street clocks, and time balls -- Monuments and monstrosities: the apex of the public clock era -- Content to look at my watch: the end of the public clock era.
520 _aIn 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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650 0 _aClocks and watches
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