From Memory to Mastery
Subtitle: Accounting for Control in America, 1750-1880
Contributors: Beckert, Sven; Goldin, Claudia; Engerman, Stanley; Rockman, Seth
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: "From Memory to Mastery" charts the development of commercial numeracy and accounting in America and the English-speaking Atlantic world between 1750 and 1880. Over this period, accounting evolved from a system of recordkeeping into a multifaceted instrument of control and analysis--from an aid to memory to an instrument of mastery.
Notes: Keywords: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Management, Numeracy, Quantification, Slavery.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012