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

Publication Info.

Location	Pub Note	Status
DeKalb PL Adult Non-Fiction - DKLY-12	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
Highland CC Stacks - HCCY-13	E161.3 .L46 2002	AVAILABLE
Kankakee PL Third Floor - KKBB-2	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
New Lenox PL Adult Non-Fiction - NLBB-1	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
Rock Island Main Lib Adult Non-Fiction - RIPG-6	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
Seneca PL Adult Non-Fiction - SEBB-3	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
Talcott Free LD Adult Non-Fiction - TFLY-11	973 LIN	AVAILABLE
Wilmington PL Adult Non Fiction - WLBB-2	973 LIN	AVAILABLE

Description	310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
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.
	Frontier and pioneer life.
	Surveying -- History.
	Surveyors -- History.
	Ohio River Valley -- Geography.
	Ohio River Valley -- Surveys -- History.
	United States -- Geography.
	United States -- Surveys -- History.
	United States -- Territorial expansion.
ISBN	0802713963 : $26.00