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Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy
- Title
- Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy / Andro Linklater.
- Author
- Linklater, Andro.
- Publication
- New York : Walker & Co., 2002.
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Details
- Description
- 310 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- United States > Surveys > History
- National characteristics, American
- Frontier and pioneer life > United States
- United States > Geography
- United States > Territorial expansion
- Ohio River Valley > Geography
- Surveying > United States > History
- Surveyors > United States > History
- Public lands > United States > History
- Ohio River Valley > Surveys > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The invention of landed property -- 2. Precise confusion-- 3. Who owned America -- 4. Life, liberty, or what -- 5. Simple arithmetic -- 6. A line drawn in the wilderness -- 7. The French dimension -- 8. Democratic decimals -- 9. The birth of the metric system -- 10. Dombey's luck -- 11. The end of Putnam -- 12. The immaculate grid -- 13. The shape of cities -- 14. Hassler's passion -- 15. The dispossessed -- 16. The limit of enclosure -- 17. Four against ten -- 18. Metric triumphant -- Epilogue : the witness tree.
- Call Number
- JSF 03-639
- ISBN
- 0802713963
- LCCN
- 2002073573
- OCLC
- 50143791
- Author
- Linklater, Andro.
- Title
- Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy / Andro Linklater.
- Imprint
- New York : Walker & Co., 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSF 03-639