Now back in print, A Calculating People reveals how numeracy profoundly shaped the character of society in the early republic and provides a wholly original per

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"A Malleable Map is a striking example of what a historically deep, learned, and meticulous examination of maps and geographical place-making can teach us. Wige

An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, The idea that "all men are created equal" is as