Turn and Jump : How Time & Place Fell Apart

Name: Turn and Jump
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9781442226388
Price: 2500 KES
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ISBN: 9781442226388

by Howard Mansfield

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1442226382

ISBN-13 9781442226388

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 25th, 2013

Print length 200 Pages

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Social and cultural history

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Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities became linked by a universal time. Here Howard Mansfield explores how our sudden interconnectedness, both physically, as through the railroad, and through inventions like the telegraph, changed our concept of time and place forever.

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