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The Global Transformation of Time - 1870-1950 (Hardcover)
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The Global Transformation of Time - 1870-1950 (Hardcover)
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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.
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