Author: Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Discourse on the Objects and Importance of the National Institutions for the Promotion of Science, Established at Washington 1840
Author: Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Discourse, on the Objects and Importance of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science
Author: Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States National Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Flowers, Guns, and Money
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226829626
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226829626
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"--
Annual Report
Author: United States National Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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A Memorial of George Brown Goode
Author: George Brown Goode
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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A Memorial of George Brown Goode
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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