Calculating People - The Spread of Numeracy in Early America

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Cline Cohen, Cohen Patricia Cline
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138149021
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14902-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history