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Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800
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Marking time (Yale Center for British Art)
Title
Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.
ISBN
9780300254105
0300254105
Publication
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]
Distribution
New Haven : Yale University Press
Physical Description
518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm
Summary
"How do we measure the days of our lives? Marking Time considers that profound question in the context of early modern Britain. The period from 1500 to 1800 was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson
Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson
Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown
Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane
Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell
Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis
Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town
Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.
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