Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
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The History of Quantified Time
I went back to the monks, European monks, the Cistercian monks in particular. I think in their activities and the way they organize things, you can start to see a kind of obsession with punctuality. You write some about how quantified time wound up getting exported around the world by colonists. But obviously there was a fully formed sense of time there already that was just not what they thought of as being time. There's a really great account of that process that's specific to British colonies, called the colonization of time.
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