Measures and Men

by Witold Kula, R. Szreter (Translator)

Overview

Measures and Men, considers times and societies in which weighing and measuring were meaningful parts of everyday life and weapons in class struggles.

Originally published in 1986.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691611044
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/14/2014
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #421
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

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