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The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
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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
By Eviatar Zerubavel
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Hardcover:

9780029346808 | Free Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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

Paperback:

9780226981659 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 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

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