COVER
TITLE PAGE
MAPS
INTRODUCTION
1 The Invention of Property
2 Precise Confusion
3 A Hunger for Land
4 Life, Liberty and What?
5 Simple Arithmetic
6 A Line in the Wilderness
7 The French Dimension
8 Democratic Decimals
9 Annie’s Ounce
10 The Birth of the Metric System
11 Dombey’s Luck
12 The End of Rufus
13 The Immaculate Grid
14 The Shape of Cities
15 Hassler’s Passion
16 The Dispossessed
17 The Limit of Enclosure
18 Four Against Ten
19 Metric Triumphant
EPILOGUE: The Witness Tree
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
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