Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History | Andro Linklater
A thought-provoking history of America's system of measurement explains how, following the American Revolution, a single system of weights and measures, the American Customary System, was developed in order to help survey and map out the vast lands west of the Ohio River and examines the impact of the system on American history and culture. Reprint.
Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History | 
