Measures and Men

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