It takes the average reader 8 hours to read Shaping the Day by Paul Glennie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into...
Shaping the Day by Paul Glennie is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.
This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read Shaping the Day aloud.
Shaping the Day is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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