Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Ottoman Temporal Culture and Its Transformation During the Long Nineteenth Century
Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
Avner Wishnitzer
ISBN: | 9780226257723 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Published: | 22 May, 2015 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Ottoman Temporal Culture and Its Transformation During the Long Nineteenth Century
Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
Avner Wishnitzer
Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was increasingly assimilated into the European-dominated global economy and the project of modern state building began to gather momentum. In Reading Clocks, Alla Turca, Avner Wishnitzer unravels the complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and for the first
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