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

by Nigel Thrift and Paul Glennie

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199605122
• ISBN13: 9780199605125
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"