《度量美国》封面

度量美国

Measuring America

Andro Linklater · 初版 2002 年

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Linklater 讲述了美国为何最终形成了其独特的度量衡体系,故事引人入胜、发人深省且令人大开眼界;本书对这一问题进行了解读,并展示了该体系如何塑造了美国的文化与国家。

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  • …不管出于哪种原因,或者自己也想参与土地投机,所以在测量时就很不老实。任何对这段迷人历史感兴趣的人都应该读读 Andro Linklater 的《Measuring America》。

    …one way or the other, or interested themselves in engaging in land speculation, so were less than honest in their surveys. Anyone interested in this fascinating history should read Andro Linklater's Measuring America.

  • 也推荐《Measuring America》,这是一部非常好读的美国土地测量史。http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8989073835&...

    Also recommend Measuring America, very readable history of the American survey. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8989073835&...

  • Andro Linklater 在《Measuring America》中指出,强行将美洲原住民迁出祖传土地的最大悲剧之一就是:与那些土地上的路线和地标绑定的口述历史就此失传了。所以这种理论…

    Andro Linklater in Measuring America says this is one of the great tragedies of forcibly relocating Native Americans from their traditional lands: the loss of the oral histories bound to routes and landmarks on those lands. So the theory…

  • …系统反而在美国扎下了根。然而,如果海盗没有在 Dombey 前往费城的途中拦截他,今天的情况可能会大不相同。正如历史学家 Andro Linklater 在其著作《Measuring America》中所写:> “(在国会看到的)那两件铜制物品(Dombey 带来的米原器和 grave 重原器),如此容易复制并分发给联邦各州,加上支持它们的有力科学论据…

    …system took hold in the U.S. instead. However, If pirates hadn’t intercepted Dombey on his way to Philadelphia, the situation might be very different today. As historian Andro Linklater writes in his book Measuring America, > “The sight [in Congress] of those two copper objects [Dombey’s meter and grave], so easily copied and sent out to every state in the Union, together with the weighty scientific arguments supporting…

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