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The Unsettled Clock

The Persistence of Time Pluralism

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Format
Hardcover
Pages
258
Published
2026
Publisher
Berghahn Books

About this book

The story

The history of timekeeping has always involved choosing or converting between various ways of representing time, a phenomenon called time pluralism.

The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present.

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