A Calculating People

The Spread of Numeracy in Early America

Patricia Cline Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92578-5 (ISBN)

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An entertaining and informative history of the birth of the American passion for numbers, tracing the history of numeracy from its origins in the Enlightenment to its flowering in mid-nineteenth century 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.11.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-415-92578-9 / 0415925789
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92578-5 / 9780415925785
Zustand	Neuware