Table of Contents

1. Clocks, Calendars and Centralisation



2. Fortune-telling



3. The Interpretation of Dreams



4. Imperial Futures



5. Calendar Girls



6. Timeless Cultures



Index

About the Author

Maureen Perkins is a Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia,. She is the author of Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change 1775 - 1870 (OUP, 1996), and editor of 'Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities' an edition of the electronic journal Mots Pluriels.