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Measuring America: How the Greatest Land Sale in History Shaped the United States
by Linklater, Andro
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About This Item
New York: Walker and Company, 2002. Uncorrected Advance Proof (also called) Advance Uncorrected Manuscript 8vo size trade paperback; 244 bright, white pages. Back cover details book's publication information. From back: "The most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States in 1784 was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom; America's debt was enormous. Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River, but in order to sell this huge territory, it had first to be surveyed - that is, measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in daily life. The debate on this vital measure look place at a critical moment in the history of ideas when the traditional view of the world was been increasingly challenged by objective reasoning. Thomas Jefferson...championed the new idea of a scientific 10-based system derived from some universal constant. Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America, but..." Edgewear, some light soil to back cover, worn tips, curled back corners of covers a some pages. . Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof.
Synopsis
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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- Charity Bookstall
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 006106
- Title
- Measuring America: How the Greatest Land Sale in History Shaped the United States
- Author
- Linklater, Andro
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Publisher
- Walker and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Uncorrected Proof; Advance Uncorrected Manuscript; United States; history; Land sale;
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- History; ARC/Uncorrected Proofs;
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