The Global Transformation of Time

1870-1950

AUTHOR(S) :
Vanessa Ogle

TRANSLATED BY: Defne Karakaya

LANGUAGE: Turkish

CATEGORY: History
PAGES: 272
SIZE: 16,5 x 24 cm.
EDITION: 1st print ,2018-07-16 00:00:00
HARDCOVER ISBN: 9786052116609
HARDCOVER PRICE: 30 TL

This book is the Turkish translation of The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950, originally published by Harvard University Press. From ths backcover of the English original:

“As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards.

Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time–historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal–provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism.

Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.”

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