An edition of Marking Modern Times (2013)
Marking Modern Times
a History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
By Alexis McCrossen
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Publish Date
2013
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
272
Description:
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.