Author: Richard Paul WatkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Jacques David
Author: Richard Paul WatkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
Author: Jacques David (horloger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
Author: Jacques DavidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958136921
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
American Watches
Author: James Craig WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Reports (Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 1880 and 1881) from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., of Their Consular Districts
Author: United States. ConsulsPublisher:
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Commercial Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Commercial Relations of the United States
Author: Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly)
Author: United States. Bureau of ManufacturesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Marking Modern Times
Author: Alexis McCrossenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601505X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
“Tells a story of a period when the quest for accurate timekeeping became an obsession in the US.” —Choice The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells, time balls, and clock faces—that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares beneath them, men, women, and children wear wristwatches of all kinds. Americans have decorated their homes with clocks and included them in their poetry, sermons, stories, and songs. And as political instruments, social tools, and cultural symbols, these personal and public timekeepers have enjoyed a broad currency in art, life, and culture. In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks. While noting the difficulties in regulating and synchronizing so many timepieces, McCrossen expands our understanding of the development of modern time discipline, delving into the ways we have standardized time and describing how timekeepers have served as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that doesn’t merely value time but regards access to time as a natural-born right, a privilege of being an American. “A precise, acute, and well-measured monograph.” —Journal of Social History “Important and engaging.” —Journal of American History “ An innovative contribution on a key historical shift in modern life.” —Urban History “An authoritative narrative of how and where time and timepieces were distributed in the period.” —Reviews in American History
Author: Gustave de Molinari