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Shaping the Day

Paul Glennie, Nigel Thrift · ISBN 9780199278206
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Paul Glennie / Nigel Thrift
Subtitle A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800
Published 15th February 2009
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A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

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 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 commonsense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period.
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