Measuring America

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Andro Linklater. Measuring America

MEASURING AMERICA

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

ONE The Invention of Property

TWO Precise Confusion

THREE A Hunger for Land

FOUR Life, Liberty and What?

FIVE Simple Arithmetic

SIX A Line in the Wilderness

SEVEN The French Dimension

EIGHT Democratic Decimals

NINE Annie’s Ounce

TEN The Birth of the Metric System

ELEVEN Dombey’s Luck

TWELVE The End of Rufus

THIRTEEN The Immaculate Grid

FOURTEEN The Shape of Cities

FIFTEEN Hassler’s Passion

SIXTEEN The Dispossessed

SEVENTEEN The Limit of Enclosure

EIGHTEEN Four Against Ten

NINETEEN Metric Triumphant

EPILOGUE The Witness Tree

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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