A Calculating People

The Spread of Numeracy in Early America

Patricia Cline Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-14902-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Patricia Cline Cohen is Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and author of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of aProstitute in 19th Century New York (1998).

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Numeracy in Seventeenth-Century England2. Colonial Counting3. Patterns and Providence4. Republican Arithmetic5. Statistics and the State6. The Census of 1840 Conclusion Notes Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-14902-0 / 1138149020
ISBN-13	978-1-138-14902-1 / 9781138149021
Zustand	Neuware