On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping 9781421438283, 2019040487, 9781421438276

Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle

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On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping
9781421438283, 2019040487, 9781421438276

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