Unsettled Clock

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The Persistence of Time Pluralism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The history of timekeeping has always involved choosing or converting between various ways of representing time, a phenomenon called time pluralism. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present. Drawing examples from medieval York, the Habsburg empire of early modern Europe, Renaissance astronomy, legal time in the US and UK before time zones were adopted, and the persistence of time pluralism in current atomic time metrology, this analysis offers a political and historical look into how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-01
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor258
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836955399

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Kevin K. Birth is on the faculty at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He studies cultural concepts of time in relationship to cognition and technology. His publications cover a wide arrange of topics including chronobiology, globalization, comparative calendars, timekeeping in Roman Britain and the Middle Ages. His previous books are: Any Time is Trinidad Time (1999); Bacchanalian Sentiments (2008); Objects of Time (2012); and Time Blind (2018).

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: What Is Time Pluralism?Chapter 1. Producing Public Timekeeping and Time PluralismChapter 2. A Bell for Every Market: Time Pluralism in Late Medieval YorkChapter 3. Cosmopolitan Times: Time Pluralism Habsburg HorologyChapter 4. Time Pluralism and Scientists’ ChoicesChapter 5. Humbuggery and Time Pluralism: Nineteenth-Century Time GambitsChapter 6. Time Pluralism and Current TimescalesChapter 7. Using Atoms versus Earth’s RotationChapter 8. Time Pluralism and the Leap Second ProblemChapter 9. Unsettling the ClockGlossaryBibliographyIndex