Calculating People

by Patricia Cline Cohen

Book Overview

"A Calculating People" is 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-19th century America. Patricia Cline Cohen focuses on episodes that illustrate the growing skill and enthusiasm for numbers in the colonies and early republic, from the controversial inauguration of the census in Jamestown and the West Indies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112845
• ISBN13: 9780226112848
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.