This article argues that modern time discipline was a product of the eighteenth-century. Whereas other works have emphasized the integration of time through nineteenth-century railway networks, this article holds that science and the state combined to bring discipline to time…

This article challenges the reigning understanding of eighteenth-century Prussia' s public sphere. Scholars have argued that Prussia's public was defined by print, and since print was easily distributed, its print public was potentially (if not actually) universal. This article holds,…