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Author Linklater, Andro.

Title Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy / Andro Linklater.

Publication Info. New York : Walker & Co., 2002.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 L648    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  973 LIN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973 LINKLATER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 L64    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  973 LIN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  973 L64M    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973 LINKLATER    Check Shelf
Description 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
Contents 1. The invention of landed property -- 2. Precise confusion-- 3. Who owned America -- 4. Life, liberty, or what -- 5. Simple arithmetic -- 6. A line drawn in the wilderness -- 7. The French dimension -- 8. Democratic decimals -- 9. The birth of the metric system -- 10. Dombey's luck -- 11. The end of Putnam -- 12. The immaculate grid -- 13. The shape of cities -- 14. Hassler's passion -- 15. The dispossessed -- 16. The limit of enclosure -- 17. Four against ten -- 18. Metric triumphant -- Epilogue : the witness tree.
Subject National characteristics, American.
Public lands -- United States -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Surveying -- United States -- History.
Surveyors -- United States -- History.
United States -- Geography.
United States -- Surveys -- History.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Ohio River Valley -- Geography.
Ohio River Valley -- Surveys -- History.
ISBN 0802713963
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