The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
Shows how an artificial system devised to order our activities, the seven-day week, has been shaped by religion, politics, and economics from the biblical era through varied, exotic civilizations and into the twentieth century
GenresWeekSocial aspectsHistory
206 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1985 by Free Press · ISBN 9780029346808
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2 editions
English
- The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week · Free Press · 1985 · ISBN 9780029346808 This page
- The seven day circle · University of Chicago Press · 1989 · ISBN 9780226981659
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