Marking Modern Times
Subtitle: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 01, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226014869
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.
Notes: Source title: Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life