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- Title: Katherine Clarke, Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis
- Author : Acta Classica
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Katherine Clarke, Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008. Pp. xiii + 408. 74.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0199291083. We tend to take time for granted. The hours, minutes and days pass by at what we perceive as a fixed rate. But whilst time itself may be a constant, however it is measured (though I am aware that this itself is a contentious topic), the way in which we represent it is much more constructed than is often acknowledged. In the Middle Ages, such now-accepted basics as the way the hands of a clock moved round, that hours were of consistent length, or when the year started, were up for negotiation. An apocryphal but contemporary story alleged that Napoleon won the Battle of Ulm in 1805 because the Austrians and Russians were using different calendars, and did not realise that the arranged rendezvous date meant different things to each army. And it took the arrival of the railways, with their need for a consistent time across the country, to end the practice of each town calibrating its clocks to local noon.
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