Unità di Misura : Breve Storia del Metro in Italia
- Submitting institution
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 54928585
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Societa Editrice il Mulino
- ISBN
- 9788815252739
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This book reconstructs the introduction of the metric system from Napoleon's 1796 military campaigns to Italian unification in 1861. It provides an original history of the Risorgimento by focusing on the first tool that "made the Italians." It also explores how measurement works as an epistemic filter, transforming people's perceptions of space, accuracy, and truth. Contrary to traditional narratives of the meter, which present it as a standard created by scientists and adopted by politicians, the book argues that the first adopters of the meter were architects and engineers, working in opposition to a general resistance.