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  title info:
    title: Shaping the day
    sub title: a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800
  name:
    name part: Glennie, Paul
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Thrift, N. J.
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 456 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
  abstract: 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. - ;Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are 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 practic.
  table of contents: Introduction : the measured heart -- Clocks, clock times, and social change -- 'Not everyone occupies the same now' : reconceptualizing clock time -- Clock times in medieval and early modern Bristol -- The provision of clock time in pre-modern England -- Clock times in everyday lives -- Precision in everyday lives -- 'Posted within shot of the grave' : seafaring times -- The pursuit of precision -- Clocks from nowhere? : John Harrison in context -- Some concluding remarks.
  note: Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-449) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Time measurements
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Clocks and watches
    geographic: England
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Time
  subject:
    topic: Time
  subject:
    topic: Temps
    topic: Mesure
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Temps
  subject:
    topic: time
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Clocks and watches
  subject:
    topic: Time
  subject:
    topic: Time measurements
  subject:
    geographic: England
  classification: QB213 .G54 2009eb
  classification: 389/.1709
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    origin info:
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    identifier: (DLC) 2008045775
    identifier: (OCoLC)265734879
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 090730
    record change date: 20260318174829.8
    record identifier: in00005704239
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng