The epic story of how the gigantic land of America acquired its unique shape across 3000 miles of territory, and how the largest land survey in history paved the way both for a colossal sale of property and for the embedding of democracy and the spirit of independence in the psyche of Americans.The sheer scale of it makes the measuring of America extraordinary. Beginning in 1785, it became the largest land survey in history stretching from the Ohio river to the Pacific coast and from Lake Erie to the Mexican border. It prepared the ground for the sale of almost two billion acres, and shaped landscapes and cities across the US more drastically than any event since the last ice age.Before the survey could begin, there had to be agreement about what kind of measurement should be used. What made the 18th-century debate so critical was the revolution taking place in Western thought as objective, scientific reasoning challenged the traditional, subjective view of the world. A battle began between those (like the British) supporting a centuries-old organic form of measurement (ounces and pounds, yards and acres) and the modernizers, like Thomas Jefferson, who backed a system based on scientific observation.The effects of the measuring of America on the landscape and people (native and immigrant) were huge and long-lasting; the story itself an exotic blend of narrative history and popular science

Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History

History

LINKLATER, Andro

Americas

Walker Co

The colour of violence (A Fitzroy selection)

Ashford, Jeffrey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

I Hear You

W. Eastwood Atwater

Slight shelf wear. Tiny tears to DJ. Plastic protective cover to DJ. Small ink marks to back board. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.

Call for the Dead

Literature & Fiction

Le Carre', John

Contemporary

Death of a Low-handicap Man

BILL, BRIAN

At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex and for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust and sexual slavery. Burglar, gun-runner and trafficker in women on four continents, Silver was a disturbed adolescent, youthful predator and adult misogynist whose notoriety was captured in the most confidential correspondence of a dozen countries in the western world. But what those in charge of law-enforcement agencies kept to themselves was how their officers had attempted to use Silver as an informer to infiltrate syndicates, only to have him outwit them as he moved in the dangerous space between police and prostitutes.In this brilliant study, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world and casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - Jack the Ripper.

The Fox and the flies: The world of Joseph silver, Racketeer and Psychopath

Biographies & Memoirs

Van Onselen,Charles

True Crime

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Schulz, Bruno

Short Stories & Anthologies

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead , introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.

Octavo, , PP.149, A Mystery From The English Countryside By Not Necessarily About Gardening

Suddenly While Gardening

Lemarchand, Elizabeth

Victorian Internet : The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line pioneers

Standage, Tom

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