ISBN:
0745317294
,
0745317286
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9780745317298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 158 p)
,
ill
,
21 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Reform of time
DDC:
304.2/3
Keywords:
Magic History 19th century
;
Prophecy History 19th century
;
Time Sociological aspects
;
Time management History 19th century
;
Superstition History 19th century
;
Time measurements History 19th century
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents ""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction: Superstition and Progress ""; ""Superstition ""; ""Progress ""; ""1. Clocks, Calendars and Centralisation ""; ""The Clock ""; ""The Calendar ""; ""The Future ""; ""2. Fortune-Telling ""; ""3. The Interpretation of Dreams ""; ""The Status of Dreams ""; ""Books of Fate and Dream Books ""; ""Women and Superstition ""; ""Condemnation of Dream Books ""; ""Dreams and Rationality ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""4. Timeless Cultures ""; ""The Wandering Tribes ""; ""Timeless Cultures ""; ""The Future ""; ""5. Calendar Girls ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Conclusion """"Notes ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3 ""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Select Bibliography ""; ""Primary Sources""; ""Secondary Sources ""; ""Index""; ""Aboriginal time""; "" 16""; "" 93-100""; "" 102""; ""Airy, George, Astronomer Royal""; "" 22""; "" 24""; ""Almanacs""; "" 26""; "" 31""; "" 35""; "" 66""; "" Merlinus Liberatus 29""; "" Merlinus Liberatus 53""; "" Moore's 33""; "" Moore's 86""; "" Moore's 103""; "" Nautical 19""; "" Nautical 22-4""; "" Punch's 107""; "" Punch's 112""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" Rider's British Merlin 32"""" The British Almanac 38""; "" The Cambridge Almanack 28""; "" The Ladies' Diary 103""; "" Whitaker's 8""; "" Whitaker's 32""; "" Whitaker's 38""; "" Whitaker's 73""; "" Wing's 30""; ""Anthropology""; "" 9""; "" 15""; "" 92-3""; "" 129""; ""Artemidorus of Ephesus 66""; ""Astrology""; "" 26""; "" 41""; "" 50""; "" 53""; "" 57-8""; "" 67""; "" 69""; ""Astronomy""; "" 9""; "" 85""; ""Australia""; "" 14-15""; "" 26""; "" 63-4""; "" 93""; ""Bamford, Samuel""; "" 1""; "" 43""; "" 56""; "" 62""; "" 88""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" 128""""Bank Holiday Act 31""; ""Bhabha, Homi 127""; ""Big Ben""; "" 24-5""; "" 125""; ""Books of fate""; "" 2""; "" 65-70""; "" 68""; "" 92""; ""Bradshaw's""; "" 21""; "" 35""; ""Britannia""; "" 16""; "" 105""; "" 106""; "" 120""; "" 122-3""; ""Burke, Peter 11""; ""Bury, J.B. 10""; ""Calendars""; "" 15-17""; "" 25-35""; "" 37""; "" 73-4""; "" 76""; "" 101""; "" 103-16""; "" 122""; ""Cassell's""; "" 36""; "" 38""; "" 107""; ""Chambers's Journal""; "" 61""; "" 63""; ""Chapbooks""; "" 2""; "" 15""; "" 66""; "" 72-3""; "" 76""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" 80""""Chatwin, Bruce 97""; ""Clare, John 90""; ""Clocks""; "" 12-13""; "" 14""; "" 18""; "" 21""; "" 22-4""; "" 25""; "" 26""; "" 33""; ""Collins, Mortimer""; "" 12-13""; "" 37""; ""Collins, Wilkie""; "" 38""; "" 71""; "" 74""; ""Comte, Auguste""; "" 10-11""; "" 32""; ""Conrad, Joseph""; "" 16""; "" 22""; "" 122""; "" 124""; ""Copestick, Francis, astrologer 57""; ""Crane, Walter 119-20""; ""Dark, Eleanor 95""; ""Determinism""; "" 1""; "" 4""; ""Diaries""; "" 27""; "" 33""; "" 36""; "" 38""; "" 64""; ""Dreams""; "" and ill-health 61""
Description / Table of Contents:
"" and women 62-3""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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