Counting Clocks, Owning Time
Detailing and Interpreting Clock and Watch Ownership in the American South, 1739-1865
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4356243 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mark M Smith (0000-0003-4153-4335, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1994 |
| Volumen | 3 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 321-339 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1994-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x94003003005 |
| OpenAlex | W2052326043 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 34 |
Despite much excellent work on the historical evolution of the concepts of time and time-discipline, little is known about the incidence of clock and watch ownership in what have been perceived as `task-oriented' societies. This article attempts to expand our historical knowledge of mechanical timepiece ownership in both urban and rural areas of the antebellum South (pre-1865) in the USA. Moreover, it speculates as to what it meant to own a clock or watch in that society
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Personal discipline and material culture
The ruling race
Time on the cross
Roll, Jordan, roll
The recovery of meaning
The slave community
Keeping Watch
The World They Made Together
The Myth of the Negro Past
The Political Economy of Slavery
The Road to Disunion
Inventories and the Analysis of Wealth and Consumption Patterns In St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1658–1777
The Peculiar Institution
South Carolina Silversmiths, 1690-1860
Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave
Prelude to Civil War
An Anxious Pursuit
The Shadow of a Dream
Planters and Patriarchy
South Carolina
Origins of Southern Radicalism
American Counterpoint
Slave Life in Georgia
Time, Work and Task Orientation
Unification of a Slave State
Nineteenth-Century Clock Technology in Britain, the United States, and Switzerland
Probate Records as a Source for Early American History
Engines of Change
Down by the Riverside
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| Altamente citado | No |