When the clock strikes sunset: The Politics of Time in the Late Ottoman Empire: the politics of time in the late Ottoman Empire

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. Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the ESRC.