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Clock watchers and stargazers: Berlin's clocks between science, state and the public sphere at the eighteenth century's end
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2003)
This article argues that modern time discipline was a product of the eighteenth-century. Whereas other works have emphasized the integration of time through nineteenth-century railway networks, this article holds that ...
Preachers, ponytails and enthusiasm: on the limits of publicness in enlightenment Prussia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2003)
This article challenges the reigning understanding of eighteenth-century Prussia's public sphere. Scholars have argued that Prussia's public was defined by print, and since print was easily distributed, its print public ...