From Memory to Mastery

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"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.