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404 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781560986720
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Focusing on 1820 to 1920, "Keeping Watch" details the far-reaching changes in American society during the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time--from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time, to regional time zones, syn...
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404 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781560986720
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Focusing on 1820 to 1920, "Keeping Watch" details the far-reaching changes in American society during the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time--from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time, to regional time zones, syn...