Linklater, Andro. <br/><br/>
Measuring America :  how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy / 
Andro Linklater. 
 - New York :  Walker & Co.,  2002. 
 - 310 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index. 
<br/><br/> invention of landed property --  Precise confusion--  Who owned America --  Life, liberty, or what --  Simple arithmetic --  line drawn in the wilderness --  French dimension --  Democratic decimals --  birth of the metric system --  Dombey's luck --  end of Putnam --  immaculate grid --  shape of cities --  Hassler's passion --  dispossessed --  limit of enclosure --  Four against ten --  Metric triumphant --  Epilogue : the witness tree.  1. The  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. A  7. The  8.  9. The  10.  11. The  12. The  13. The  14.  15. The  16. The  17.  18. 
<br/><br/> Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802713963 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>1151518  QBI 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002073573 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National characteristics, American.<br/>Public lands--History.--United States<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--United States.<br/>Surveying--History.--United States<br/>Surveyors--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Ohio River Valley--History.--Surveys<br/>United States--Geography.<br/>United States--Surveys--History.<br/>United States--Territorial expansion.<br/>Ohio River Valley--Geography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 161.3  / .L46 2002