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Jiang uses James Scott to support the claim that market exchange, Enlightenment standardization, and revolutionary state-building made the metric revolution and state simplification possible.
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State Building
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"But the nation state... Because it is almost like a new religion. It wants standardization and systematization. It wants everyone to buy into the..."
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"...France. Okay? Enlightenment. Finally, the revolution, and especially Napoleon, the Napoleonic state building actually enforced the metric system in France and the empire. Okay?..."
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