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

Name: Measuring America How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise OfD Emocracy
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ISBN: 9780452284593

ISBN-10: 0452284597

ISBN-13: 9780452284593

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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 Americatells 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…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Measuring America Introduction



The Invention of Landed Property



Precise Confusion



Who Owned America?



Life, Liberty, or What?



Simple Arithmatic



A Line Drawn in the Wilderness



The French Dimension



Democratic Decimals



The Birth of the Metric System



Dombey's Luck



The End of Putnam



The Immaculate Grid



The Shape of Cities



Hassler's Passion



The Dispossesed



The Limit of Enclosure



Four Against Ten



Metric Triumphant


Epilogue: The Witness Tree


Acknowledgments


Appendix: General Tables of Units of Measurement


Notes


Bibliography


Index