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Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History (Signed)
by Linklater, Andro
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007108877
- ISBN 13
- 9780007108879
- Seller
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, first printing. 308pp, plus two section of monochrome plate illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Brown endpapers. 8vo. Cloth rounded on upper corners and spine ends, strip fading along upper edge, text block edges tanned. Pages a little tanned in margins. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped on edges, a little more heavily along the upper edge. How the greatest land sale in history, of over a billion acres of land west of the Ohio River, shaped the American nation, both geographically and psychologically.
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018787
- Title
- Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History (Signed)
- Author
- Linklater, Andro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0007108877
- ISBN 13
- 9780007108879
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- American History, United States of America, USA,
- X weight
- 0 kg
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