
Colonial Time
"Colonial Time" explores how European colonization fundamentally reshaped societies by imposing Western timekeeping systems. This imposition wasn''t a neutral act but a deliberate strategy known as "temporal colonialism," used to synchronize colonized populations, control labor, and extract resources. The book reveals how standardizing time zones and adopting the Gregorian calendar disrupted tradi...
"Colonial Time" explores how European colonization fundamentally reshaped societies by imposing Western timekeeping systems. This imposition wasn''t a neutral act but a deliberate strategy known as "temporal colonialism," used to synchronize colonized populations, control labor, and extract resources. The book reveals how standardizing time zones and adopting the Gregorian calendar disrupted tradi...
