TY - JOUR
AU - Stowe, Steven M.
AB - Book Reviews 679 social class, and the African American experi­ ly antebellum) southern whites' appreciation ence."Such connections certainly exist: it is sim­ of clock-segmented time reveals their claim on ply that Fahey often leaves making them up the modern temperament. Should anyone still to the reader. Some of that may reflect doubt it, Smith maintains that a great many Fahey's training as a historian of modern Brit­ southerners were quite aware of their place in ain. While probably making him more sensi­ the up-and-coming nineteenth century and tive to the international nature of the organi­ wound their watches in order to seize the main zation, it may well lead him to neglect contexts chance and live the good life. that an Americanist would find important. The In six chapters, with an epilogue on the sections on women Templars, for example, do adoption of a national standard time in 1883, not go very far in engaging a dynamic litera­ Smith presents useful, quantitative information ture on nineteenth-century American female about clock and watch "makers" in the South activism. Similarly, Reconstruction does not (which, as he points out, were almost without even rate a reference in the index, even though exception 
TI - Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xxii, 303 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2344-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4693-7.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2567813
DA - 1998-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/mastered-by-the-clock-time-slavery-and-freedom-in-the-american-south-NPyoUa6Tvm
SP - 679
EP - 680
VL - 85
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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