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Measures and Men
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Author(s):
Witold Kula
Publication date:
December 31 1986
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Princeton University Press
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December 31 1986
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10.1515/9781400857739
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. ix
Glossary
pp. v
Contents
pp. vii
Translator's Note
pp. 3
1. The Representational and Functional Character of Past Measures
pp. 9
2. Realistic and Symbolic Conceptions of Measures and Measuring
pp. 13
3. Beliefs Associated with Measures and Measuring
pp. 18
4. Measures as an Attribute of Authority
pp. 24
5. Man as the Measure of All Things (Anthropometric Measures)
pp. 29
6. How was Land Measured? (Agrarian Measures
pp. 43
7. How was Grain Measured?
pp. 71
8. How was Bread Measured?
pp. 79
9. Standards and the Guarantees of their Immutability
pp. 82
10. Systems of Division and Grouping (Mnemotechnics)
pp. 87
11. The Magnitude of the Measure and the Value of the Substance Measured
pp. 90
12. The History of Historical Metrology
pp. 94
13. Historical Metrology as a Branch of the Study of History
pp. 102
14. The Functions of Measures in the Pre-capitalist Commodity and Credit Markets
pp. 111
15. The Inertia of Measures and their Variability
pp. 114
16. The Tendencies towards Standardization
pp. 120
17. Social Conditions and the Emergence of Conventional Measures
pp. 127
18. Class Struggle in the Polish Countryside from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
pp. 147
19. The Struggle of the Nobility with the Bourgeoisie in the Urban Market
pp. 156
20. The History of the Standardization of Measures in Poland from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (Summary)
pp. 161
21. Attempts to Standardize Measures in France from 789 to 1789 and their Failure
pp. 185
22. "One King, One Law, One Weight, One Measure!"
pp. 228
23. "One of the Blessings of the Revolution"
pp. 267
24. "For All People, for All Time!"
pp. 289
Notes
pp. 339
Bibliography
pp. 375
Index
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