Author: First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N.Y.Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Church Year Book of the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N.Y.
Author: First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N.Y.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society
Author: Westchester County Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Westchester County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The History of Yonkers
Author: Charles Elmer AllisonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Christian Advocate
Author: The Church at Home and Abroad
Author: Southern Workman and Hampton School Record
Author: 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
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Albert HauckPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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