Measuring America
How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History
Linklater, Andro
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BOOK 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.
AUTHOR BIO
Andro Linklater studied history at Oxford University and is a full-time writer and journalist, and author of several books.
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[Measuring America] deserves to be a classic... (Simon Winchester, Boston Globe)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0452284597
ISBN(13-digit): 9780452284593
Copyright: 2003
Dewey Decimal: 973
Library of Congress: BL2003015640
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 310
Paper Weight (lb): 0.7
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