Author: Benjamin RushPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 669
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Letters
Author: Benjamin RushLetters of Benjamin Rush
Author: Lyman Henry ButterfieldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691200769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Volume 2 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush's Autobiography. Written between 1761 and 1813, the letters trace Rush's career, from student in Scotland and England to signer of the Declaration of Independence and Philadelphia's leading physician. He writes to John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Witherspoon, and a host of others. Two fascinating series of letters chronicle the failures of the hospital service in the Revolutionary War and the Philadelphia yellow-fever epidemic of 1793. Rush the private individual is revealed in the letters to his wife. Published for the American Philosophical Society. Lyman Butterfield is associate editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Originally published in 1951. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813
Author: Benjamin RushPublisher:
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Letters of Benjamin Rush
Author: Benjamin Rush1793-1813
Author: Benjamin RushLetters: 1793-1818
Author: Thomas MoorePublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1776-1779
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1777-1779
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
America's First Plague
Author: Robert P. WatsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538164892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective masks and the authorities ordered quarantines. The streets emptied. Doubters questioned the science and disobeyed. The year: 1793. The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia, the nation’s largest city and seat of the federal government. For 3 long months yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes let loose from a ship from Africa, ravaged the eastern seaboard The federal government abandoned the city and scattered, leaving a dangerous leadership gap. By the end of the pandemic, ten percent of Philadelphians had died. America's First Plague offers the definitive telling of this long-forgotten crisis, capturing the wave of fear that swept across the fledgling republic, and the numerous unintended but far-reaching consequences it would have on the development of the United States and the Atlantic slave trade. It is an intriguing tale of fear and human nature, a tragic lesson of how prejudice toward blacks was so easily stoked, an examination of the primitive state of medicine and vulnerability to disease in the eighteenth century, and a story of the struggle to govern in the face of crisis. With eerie similarities to the Covid pandemic, historian Robert P. Watson tells the story of a young nation teetering on the brink of chaos.
The Letters of Thomas Moore: 1793-1818
Author: Thomas MoorePublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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