The unforgiving minute: How Australia learned to tell the time (Australian retrospectives)

Davison, Graeme

ISBN 10: 0195534964 ISBN 13: 9780195534962

Editorial: Oxford University Press, 1993

Idioma: Ingl�s

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HOW THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME IN AUSTRALIA HAS DEVELOPED SINCE THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST FLEET.

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The unforgiving minute: How Australia learned to tell the time (Australian retrospectives)

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Oxford University Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

1993

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0195534964

ISBN 13

9780195534962

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Soft cover

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Very Good

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Australiana

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In asking how Australia learned to tell the time, Graeme Davison uncovers a surprising story. From ship's chronometers to digital clocks, from time-balls to time pips, from dreamtime to flexitime, clocks and time-keeping have been the quiet revolutionaries of Australian history. As the convict era drew to an end, the colonial governors looked to clocks as the mechanical policemen of an emerging free society. Fifty years later, as railways and telegraphs began to spread across the land, and pocket watches appeared on the waistcoats of working men, colonial society began to keep stricter hours of work and play, and to teach its children the virtue of punctuality. In the early 20th century, punch clocks and time-switches laid the basis for new patterns of work in the factory and the home. Now, in the 1990s, the "faceless clocks" in computers and automated control systems have created a "postmodern" time regime that is both more flexible, and more demanding, than its predecessors. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical insights and primary sources, "The Unforgiving Minute" offers an original interpretation of Australian history.

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