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Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800

Title
Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.
Publication
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Town, Edward
  • McShane, Angela, 1959-
  • Adamson, Glenn
  • Yale Center for British Art
Description
518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 27 cm
Summary
"How do we measure the days of our lives? Marking Time considers that profound question in the context of early modern Britain. The period from 1500 to 1800 was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded.
Uniform Title
Marking time (Yale Center for British Art)
Subject
  • Time perception
  • Time and art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson -- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson -- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown -- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane -- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis -- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town -- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.
Call Number
JFF 22-364
ISBN
  • 9780300254105
  • 0300254105
LCCN
2020003822
OCLC
1139014022
Title
Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Town, Edward, editor.
McShane, Angela, 1959- editor.
Adamson, Glenn. Running like clockwork?
Yale Center for British Art.
Research Call Number
JFF 22-364
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