자료유형 | E-Book |
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개인저자 | Barak, On. |
서명/저자사항 | On time[electronic resource] :technology and temporality in modern Egypt /On Barak. |
발행사항 | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xiii, 341 p.) : ill. |
ISBN | 0520956567 (electronic bk.) 9780520956568 (electronic bk.) 1299713262 (electronic bk.) 9781299713260 (electronic bk.) |
일반주기 |
Revised version of the author's dissertation--New York University, 2009.
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서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Introduction: another time? -- En route -- Double standards -- Effendi hauntologies -- Harmonization and its discords -- The urban politics of slowness -- Counterclockwise revolution -- On hold -- Conclusion: countertemporality. |
요약 | In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over ""dehumanizing"" European standards of eff |
일반주제명 | Time -- Social aspects -- Egypt. Time perception -- Social aspects -- Egypt. Technology -- Social aspects -- Egypt. HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt. HISTORY / Middle East / General. |
주제명(지명) | Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936.Egypt -- Social conditions -- 19th century.Egypt -- Social conditions -- 20th century. |
언어 | 영어 |
기타형태 저록 | Print version:9780520276130052027613297805202761470520276140 |
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