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Thanks to Dale Wharton for sending along the discussion on early
measurements from H-Urban.
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> [...] early systems of measurement used in the United States.
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> describe their impact on the American landscape.
> Thanks,
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> Sean M. O'Donnell
How about French system of measurement and French way of settlement?
In early XVIIIth century, the territory under French influence covered
half of North America. At its zenith (circa 1713-14, on the eve of the
Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession), it
extended from Acadia and Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast to the
Rocky Mountains and from the Hudson Bay in the north through the
Plains, the Great Lakes, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys down to
Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, except for Spanish Florida
and the New England corridor between the Atlantic and the Appalachian
Mountains, the rest was controlled by the French and their Amerindian
allies.
Casanova (1975) shows the imprint of the French way of settlement
in a lot of now "american" regions.
Casanova, J.-D. (1975). Une Amerique francaise
Quebec: Editeur officiel du Quebec and Paris:
La Documentation francaise
Pierre J. Hamel
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
INRS-Urbanisation 3465, rue Durocher Montreal Quebec H2X 2C6
telephone: (514) 499-4014
telecopie: (514) 499-4065
HamelPJ@INRS-Urb.UQuebec.ca
[The English translation of Casanova's work is:
Casanova, Jacques Donat.
America's French heritage
with the collaboration of Armour Landry.
&Parisa : La Documentation francaise, 1976.
161 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 158-160.
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