Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Global Transformation of Time
Author: Vanessa Ogle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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As new networks of 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 in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
As new networks of 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 in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Works of Art, Antiquities and Relics
Author: Shakespeare's Birthplace (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Catalogue of the Books
Author: Stratford-upon-Avon (England). Shakespeare's Birthplace
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Goethe-Bibliographie
Author: Hans Werner Pyritz
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Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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