The week : a history of the unnatural rhythms that made us who we are /
"An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live. We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, entirely arti...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : in search of weekly time
- A people of the week
- Our appointed times : the rise of the modern week
- Does anybody really know what time it is?
- Preserving the modern week
- Epilogue : at week's end?
