Turn & Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart - Brossura

Mansfield, Howard

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ISBN 10: 1442226382 ISBN 13: 9781442226388

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2013

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Howard Mansfield has contributed toThe New York Times, American Heritage,The Washington Post, Historic Preservation,Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times,Philadelphia Inquirer, Yankee, and other publications on the topics of preservation, architecture, and American history. Mansfield has explored issues of preservation in five books includingIn the Memory House, The Same Ax, Twice, andThe Bones of the Earth.

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• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442226382
• ISBN 13: 9781442226388
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 197