Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Land Classification in the United States
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Measuring America
Author: Andro Linklater
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452284597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452284597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Land Classification in the United States
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board. Land Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Forest Lands of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Forestry
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 2256
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 2256
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Forest Lands of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Forestry Joint Committee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Freedom in the 50 States
Author: William Ruger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944424336
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study ranks the American states according to how their public policies affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. Updating, expanding, and improving upon the three previous editions of Freedom in the 50 States, the 2016 edition examines state and local government intervention across a wide range of policy categories -- from tax burdens to court systems, from eminent domain laws to occupational licensing, and from homeschooling regulation to drug policy. Freedom in the 50 States remains the only index that measures both economic and personal freedoms.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944424336
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study ranks the American states according to how their public policies affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. Updating, expanding, and improving upon the three previous editions of Freedom in the 50 States, the 2016 edition examines state and local government intervention across a wide range of policy categories -- from tax burdens to court systems, from eminent domain laws to occupational licensing, and from homeschooling regulation to drug policy. Freedom in the 50 States remains the only index that measures both economic and personal freedoms.
Land of Promise
Author: Michael Lind
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062097725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"[An] ambitious economic history of the united States...rich with details." ?—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions—often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II. When the U.S. economy has flourished, government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. As the United States struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, Michael Lind clearly demonstrates that Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062097725
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"[An] ambitious economic history of the united States...rich with details." ?—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions—often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II. When the U.S. economy has flourished, government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. As the United States struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, Michael Lind clearly demonstrates that Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Granting Remaining Unreserved Public Lands to States. Hearings ... on S. 17, 2272, 4060 ... March, April, 1932
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Withdrawal and Utilization of the Public Lands of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Booker T. Washington National Monument, Virginia (Proposed)
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booker T. Washington National Monument, Virginia (Proposed)
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
Book Description