Molly Farrell writes and teaches about early American literature, feminism, and science studies.

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Colonial Americans learned to count surrounded by conflicts about what a number is. Molly Farrell traces arithmetic primers and cipher books through early America to reveal how ordinary people repurposed numeracy for their own ends. New World Calculation disentangles the fraught relationship between quantification, colonialism, and the rise of racial capitalism.

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Book cover titled 'Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing' by Molly Farrell, featuring an illustration of colonial American life with people, a dog, and various objects.
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