UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34918138
Format:
xix, 264 Seiten
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ISBN:
9780300257328
Content:
"We live by the seven-day week. Yet weeks are dictated not by the natural world but rather by appointment. And in the modern world, these appointments entail more than just the establishment of religious rest days or breaks from work, but a whole host of synchronized activities through which we coordinate our rhythms with others, and especially with strangers. This book approaches weekly time consciousness as a historical development and argues that the modern experience of seven-day rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Using a wide array of sources - newspapers, pawnshop ledgers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, attendance forms, court testimony, directories, memoirs, novels, letters, and diaries from across the country - the author reconstructs the weekly patterns and schedules of ordinary Americans and explore the habits of mind that grew up around the modern week. He explores how the modern week not only became the dominant organizing cycle of social activity, but also how the passing of weeks came to stand for the swift flight of time itself"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Henkin, David M. The Week
Language:
English
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