The reform of time : magic and modernity
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The reform of time : magic and modernity
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- The reform of time : magic and modernity
- Title remainder
- magic and modernity
- Statement of responsibility
- Maureen Perkins
- Subject
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- 1800-1899
- Bijgeloof
- Electronic book
- Geistesgeschichte
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- Großbritannien
- History
- Magic
- Magic -- History -- 19th century
- Magie
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Democracy
- Profetieën
- Prophecy
- Prophecy -- History -- 19th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
- Superstition -- History -- 19th century
- Tijd
- Tijdmanagement
- Tijdmeting
- Time -- Sociological aspects
- Time -- Sociological aspects
- Time management
- Time management -- History -- 19th century
- Time measurements
- Time measurements -- History -- 19th century
- Wahrsagen
- Zeitwahrnehmung
- Superstition
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Annotation
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 304.2/3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM656
- LC item number
- .P47 2001eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Summary expansion
- The decline of magic is generally discussed in the context of the rise of scientific knowledge and the spread of education. In this original critique, Maureen Perkins challenges such interpretations and argues that the nineteenth-century marginalisation of 'superstition' is part of a social history of time management. Perkins summarises the development of a sense of British temporal superiority and tackles enduring questions of colonialisation and class from the unusual angle of beliefs about time. She relates differing concepts of time to colonial discourse, particularly in relation to gypsies and Australian Aborigines, and to the development of national identity in calendar illustrations. She surveys technological developments in the calculation of time, and assesses the role of popular beliefs in astrology, books of fate, and prophetic dreaming. This fascinating study reveals how the increasing importance of accurate measurement of time in the modern world led to campaigns against the fatalism and apathy which popular practices, such as fortune-telling, supposedly encouraged
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