Marking time: objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800

Abstract

Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson -- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson -- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown -- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane -- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis -- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town -- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.

Contents

Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson -- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson -- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown -- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane -- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis -- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town -- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.