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Clocks and Culture

Clocks and Culture

1300-1700

by Carlo M. Cipolla
Paperback
Publication Date: 02/09/2003

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How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture. In his introduction, Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, puts this classic book in perspective.
ISBN:
9780393324433
9780393324433
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-09-2003
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
206
Dimensions (mm):
203x137x15mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Carlo M. Cipolla

Carlo M. Cipolla (1922 - 2000) was an Italian economic historian, Fulbright Fellow and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cipolla was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1989 and awarded the International Balzan Prize for Economic History in 1995. He also held honorary degrees in Italy and Switzerland.

His classic treatise The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity has sold more than half a million copies worldwide in over ten languages.

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