Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Glossary -- Part One -- 1. The Representational and Functional Character of Past Measures -- 2. Realistic and Symbolic Conceptions of Measures and Measuring -- 3. Beliefs Associated with Measures and Measuring -- 4. Measures as an Attribute of Authority -- 5. Man as the Measure of All Things (Anthropometric Measures) -- 6. How was Land Measured? (Agrarian Measures -- 7. How was Grain Measured? -- 8. How was Bread Measured? -- 9. Standards and the Guarantees of their Immutability -- 10. Systems of Division and Grouping (Mnemotechnics) -- 11. The Magnitude of the Measure and the Value of the Substance Measured -- 12. The History of Historical Metrology -- 13. Historical Metrology as a Branch of the Study of History -- 14. The Functions of Measures in the Pre-capitalist Commodity and Credit Markets -- 15. The Inertia of Measures and their Variability -- 16. The Tendencies towards Standardization -- 17. Social Conditions and the Emergence of Conventional Measures -- Part Two -- 18. Class Struggle in the Polish Countryside from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- 19. The Struggle of the Nobility with the Bourgeoisie in the Urban Market -- 20. The History of the Standardization of Measures in Poland from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (Summary) -- Part Three -- 21. Attempts to Standardize Measures in France from 789 to 1789 and their Failure -- 22. "One King, One Law, One Weight, One Measure!" -- 23. "One of the Blessings of the Revolution" -- Part Four -- 24. "For All People, for All Time!" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index