Stephen kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and world war i that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space to mark the books twentieth anniversary kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive . The culture of time and space 1880 1918 with a new preface 2nd edition by kern stephen 2003 paperback on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers stephen kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and world war i that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. The culture of time and space 1880 1918 by kern stephen 2003 paperback on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers. The culture of time and space 1880 1918 has 238 ratings and 20 reviews john said this could have been a truly impressive book stephen kern argues a universal theory regarding a cultural treatment of the change in perception of time and space from 1880 and 1918 through varied and vast examples he contends that technologies such as . The culture of time and space with a n e w preface stephen kern harvard university press cambridge massachusetts london england