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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise Ofd Emocracy

Autor Andro Linklater, Linklater Andro
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2003 – vârsta de la 18 ani
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life.
Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780452284593
ISBN-10: 0452284597
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Plume Books

Cuprins

Measuring America Introduction
One: The Invention of Landed Property

Two: Precise Confusion

Three: Who Owned America?

Four: Life, Liberty, or What?

Five: Simple Arithmatic

Six: A Line Drawn in the Wilderness

Seven: The French Dimension

Eight: Democratic Decimals

Nine: The Birth of the Metric System

Ten: Dombey's Luck

Eleven: The End of Putnam

Twelve: The Immaculate Grid

Thirteen: The Shape of Cities

Fourteen: Hassler's Passion

Fifteen: The Dispossesed

Sixteen: The Limit of Enclosure

Seventeen: Four Against Ten

Eighteen: Metric Triumphant

Epilogue: The Witness Tree

Acknowledgments
Appendix: General Tables of Units of Measurement
Notes
Bibliography
Index


Recenzii

"[Linklater] has the talent not just to let us know how things work, but to make us want to know...A magical mystery tour that leaves the reader both mildly footsore and exhilarated by unexpected connections." —The New York Times



"What's great about history, when done well, is how even the most familiar topics, from the American Revolution to WWII, can be revisited again and again, not just to retell stories but to offer a fresh perspective. That is what Andro Linklater does in Measuring America." —USA Today



"Remarkable...Linklater traces with unusual elegance and a keen wit the epic story of measuring our nation, charting the process by which, with each length of the surveyor's chain, new states were literally bought into being." —Los Angeles Times



 



 



 



 



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In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what money it had during its fight for independence. "Measuring America" tells the fascinating story of how the nation gained the American Customary System.

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