{"product_id":"one-time-fits-all-9780804756426","title":"One Time Fits All","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Time Fits All\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barkty's book is a well-written technical narrative that shows how the history of cartography should be written. Its conceptual depth gives us insight not only into what is the end product of cartographic and geodetic research, a map, but more importantly delves deeply and with methodological rigour into the scientific, cultural and political happenings that are at the very foundations of cartographic science and production.\" -- \u003ci\u003eImago Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOne Time Fits All\u003c\/i\u003e deals with five campagains for global temporal standardization . . . Each of these campaigns is tied to separate yet overlapping histories, a multiplicity of actors, and a series of complex debates, all of which Bartky's highly accessible account disentangles.\" -- \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone interested in time who thinks that his or her timepiece is 'very accurate' should find this work of interest, for it clearly documents just how the measuring and recording of time is really a creation of man . . . [\u003ci\u003eOne Time Fits All\u003c\/i\u003e] is well documented and well written. Moreover, there are numerous photos of, and tidbits about, those who have played a role in this drama.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNAWCC Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a broad study that will interest historians not just of astronomy but also of modern culture, politics, science, technology, and transportation, covering as it does the emergence of datelines, meridians, global times zones, and seasonal clock shifting during the last century and a half.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Astronomy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The subject of this book is the history of three aspects of time and travel: the International Date Line, the world's standard time zones and Daylight Saving Time For readers wanting to know absolutely everything about the subject step by step, this book is an absolutely must. For them it will be a standard reference book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Maritime History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the greatest globalizing force—long before globalization found its name—was the vast effort to coordinate date and time-keeping in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was an effort that drew in astronomers and mariners, train magnates and politicians: an astonishing campaign that gave us regulated time around the planet. In \u003ci\u003eOne Time Fits All\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian Bartky, one of our clearest and most accurate historians of time, presents us with a remarkable, readable, and international history of this period. And in the process he clears up a myriad of misunderstandings and distortions that have cluttered the field for a several generations. I recommend it with great enthusiasm.\" -- Peter Galison * Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Illustrations\txxx  Preface\txxx  Acknowledgments\txxx  List of Abbreviations\txxx  \tIntroduction\t1  Part I.\tCreating a Date Line (15221921)  1.\tWhat a Difference a Day Makes\t000  Part II.\tCampaigning for Uniform Time (18701925)  2. \tChoosing an Initial Meridian\t000  3.\tEnter Two Innovators\t000  4.\tVentilating the Issues\t000  5.\tNorth America and Rome\t000  6.\tWashington and London and Beyond\t000  7.\tAltering the Astronomical Day\t000  8.\tPartitioning the World's Time\t000  9.\tThe French Take the Lead\t000  Part III.\tEmploying Clock Time as a Social Instrument (18831927)  10.\tAdvancing Sunset, Saving Daylight\t000  11.\tChanging Time, Gaining Daylight\t000  \tEpilogue: The Present\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405569728855,"sku":"9780804756426","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/one-time-fits-all-9780804756426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}