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Shaping the Day - A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 (Hardcover)
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Shaping the Day - A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 (Hardcover)
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Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we
take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the
day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary
outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of
ideas about time.
Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of
timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on
many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to
housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how
a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and
how it developed during this period.
Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the
well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison,
who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters,
including sailors, gamblers, and burglars.
Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that
clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately
related-this unique historical study will engage all readers
interested in how "telling the time" has come to dominate our way
of life.
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