Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700
History of the Hour
Author: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Telling Time
Author: Stuart Sherman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226752761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226752761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Before the Industrial Revolution
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Guns, Sails and Empires
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
Author: Christine McCourt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.
Power and Time
Author: Dan Edelstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Time
Author: Diane Owen Hughes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considers an important dimension in understanding culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considers an important dimension in understanding culture
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Author: Minsoo Kang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264908
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264908
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme
Author: Gillian Adler
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical—from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the mechanical clock made time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm show how medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical—from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the mechanical clock made time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm show how medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.