TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCrossen,Alexis
TI  - Marking modern times: a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life 
SN  - 9780226014869
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - USA
KW  - Clock watch
KW  - McCrossen Alexis
KW  - Timekeeper (general)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-246) and index; Unveiling the jewelers' clock -- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States -- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America -- Republican heirlooms, instruments of modern time discipline: pocket watches during and after the Civil War -- Noon, November 18, 1883: the abolition of local time, the debut of a national standard -- American synchronicity: turn-of-the-century tower clocks, street clocks, and time balls -- Monuments and monstrosities: the apex of the public clock era -- Content to look at my watch: the end of the public clock era
N2  - In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right
ER  -