Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 1st Edition

by Paul Glennie (Author), Nigel Thrift (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0199278202

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Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our 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 common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period.

Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars.

Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how "telling the time" has come to dominate our way of life.

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Dr. Paul Glennie is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Bristol Professor Nigel Thrift is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

One of the world's leading human geographers and social scientists, Professor Thrift has, during his academic career, been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards, including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research in 2003 and Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 2007. He is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003, was in the top five of the most-cited geographers in the world from 1988 to 2002, and is co-author, author or co-editor of over 35 books.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 25, 2009)
Language : English
Hardcover : 472 pages
ISBN-10 : 0199278202
ISBN-13 : 978-0199278206
Item Weight : 2.13 pounds
Dimensions : 9.3 x 1 x 6.3 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #7,266,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,131 in Physics of Time (Books)
- #1,415 in Welsh History
- #3,536 in Geography (Books)

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Chris R

Time does not fly.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2014

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A very authorative work. I guess not intended as light reading. Learning a lot on the subject.

Barb

A Must Read, Beyond Just Time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2015

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A masterpiece, well and deeply researched full of incredible insights and details into a topic we think we know about.

David Hine

Philosophical, analytical text with interesting insights

Reviewed in Australia on August 11, 2018

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This is a historical treatise on the impact of time keeping on the structure of society and on human life/psyche. For those with an interest to read an analysis of theory of history, there is much to enjoy.

It is far from a travel book or even a chronology.

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