Download or read book Mastered by the Clock written by Mark M. Smith and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.
Download or read book Mastered by the Clock written by Mark Michael Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.
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Download or read book Master Humphrey s Clock written by Charles Dickens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Download or read book Master Humphrey s Clock New Christmas Stories General Index of Characters and Their Appearances Familiar Sayings from Dickens s Works written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Man Who Mastered Time written by Raymond King Cummings and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond King Cummings' 'The Man Who Mastered Time' is a quintessential work of early science fiction that delves into the complexities and paradoxes of time travel. With a narrative rich in speculative wonder, Cummings' literary style marries a brisk pace with methodical scientific curiosity, set against the backdrop of the genre's golden era. The novel stands as a testament to the period's fascination with temporal exploration and its broader implications on the human condition. The literary context of this novel hails from an era that bore witness to the burgeoning science fiction landscape, one which Cummings distinctly influenced with his imaginative propositions and his unique vision of the future. Cummings, an influential figure in the sci-fi community, often intertwined his interest in the possibilities of science with his vivid imagination, resulting in stories that were both grounded in scientific plausibility and wildly creative. It's likely that 'The Man Who Mastered Time' was born from both his personal fascination with the concept of time and the emerging theories of the early 20th century that challenged traditional notions of a linear, immutable chronology. For lovers of classic science fiction, 'The Man Who Mastered Time' offers a journey that is as intellectually stimulating as it is entertaining. Cummings' prowess in weaving a tale that both honors the scientific inquiries of its time and transcends decades with its relevance is a rare find. The book beckons the modern reader to dive into the origins of sci-fi literature, where the foundations of today's beloved time-travel tropes were first forged. In enjoying this work, one not only partakes in a thrilling narrative but also in the celebration of a genre's heritage.
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Download or read book Modernism and Time Machines written by Tung Charles M. Tung and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the shapes of time, the consistency of timespace and the nature of history.Key FeaturesDraws on insights from a range of sources, including critical geography, postcolonial theory, science and technology studies, and time studiesExamines different kinds of objects together: SF, Impressionism, and Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis; evolutionary biology, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Leinster's "e;Sidewise in Time"e;; Woolf, Philip K. Dick's alternate history, and the film Interstellar; bullet time, Faulkner's racialized lag, and Jessica Hagedorn's postcolonial anachronism; "e;big history,"e; Olaf Stapledon's two-billion-year novel of the human species, and Terrence Malick's film Tree of Life
Download or read book Master Humphrey s Clock and Other Early Stories and Sketches written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
