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Between the Calendar and the Clock, an Environmental History of American Timekeeping in the Nineteenth Century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Between the Calendar and the Clock, an Environmental History of American Timekeeping in the Nineteenth Century./
Author:	Wersan, Kate E.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	286 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22621531
ISBN:	9781687904348

Between the Calendar and the Clock, an Environmental History of American Timekeeping in the Nineteenth Century.
Wersan, Kate E.

Between the Calendar and the Clock, an Environmental History of American Timekeeping in the Nineteenth Century. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 286 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The history of timekeeping runs through American histories of modernity and the Enlightenment, the impact of capitalism, changes in business management, and changing perceptions of the natural world. In classic works by E.P. Thompson, Michel Foucault, Jacques le Goff, and David Harvey the broad transformation in Western time-consciousness from the Enlightenment to modernity appears as the slow death of natural time and seasonal rhythms, the subduing of calendrical or liturgical measures of time, and the enforcement of abstract measures, ticked-off by machines in ever smaller and more reliable units. But the clock has never been the only way to know and note time, and the history of modern timekeeping is not only a history of mechanical time. This other history-the history of how Western non-clock-based ways of tracking time changed over the course of the long nineteenth century-is the subject of this dissertation. Proposing the term 'organic timekeepers' for timekeeping technologies that operate where human temporal abstractions touch the material world, this dissertation presents four case studies drawn from across the nineteenth century to illustrate the ways these timekeeping technologies were universalized, standardized, and employed at different scales to better align American life and labor with the rhythms of the natural world. Five decades ago, E.P. Thompson opened historians' eyes to systems of organic timekeeping operating within English peasant life and challenged by industrial time discipline, a revelation from which generations of scholars have drawn important inspiration. However, this dissertation argues, far from dying at the hands of a clock-driven modern industrial world, those systems of organic timekeeping persisted far longer than Thompson credited, and continue to shape our lives and environmental perception today. The modern world is built on the foundation of modern organic timekeeping.

ISBN: 9781687904348Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Agriculture

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