A calculating people : the spread of numeracy in early America
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A calculating people : the spread of numeracy in early America
Routledge, 1999
[New ed.]
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Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now back in print, A Calculating People reveals how numeracy profoundly shaped the character of society in the early republic and provides a wholly original perspective on the development of modern America.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Numeracy in Seventeenth-Century England2. Colonial Counting3. Patterns and Providence4. Republican Arithmetic5. Statistics and the State6. The Census of 1840 Conclusion Notes Index
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