Author(s):
Yasemin Akcaguner
Type:
Research abstract
Department:
Department of International History
Exhibit no:
87
The story of the Ottoman Empire's initial encounter with 'modern' time, told through the clock towers of nineteen century Istanbul, tells us about the beginnings of a regime of temporal rigidity that is nowadays drawing to a close with the blurring of work and leisure under late capitalism.
This research was funded by the ESRC.