Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 17
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
A definitive scholarly edition of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson The 612 documents in this volume include Jefferson’s notes on his early career, one of the lengthiest documents of his retirement. Often misleadingly called his autobiography, the text describes Jefferson’s experience as an American revolutionary, a legislator shaping and revising Virginia’s laws, and a United States diplomat in France as its own revolution neared. Jefferson sits for a portrait by Thomas Sully commissioned for West Point. He takes the unusual step of allowing his recommendation of a book by John Taylor to be published, insuring a wide circulation of Jefferson’s views on the proper balance between state and federal powers. In a private letter he asserts that the federal judiciary is amassing overarching power, “ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains.” Jefferson receives a description of an African American commemoration of the nation’s 1807 ban on the importation of slaves. Jefferson advises that the opening of the University of Virginia is not imminent even as he oversees its construction and defends the high cost, stating as his goal, “to do, not what was to perish with ourselves, but what would remain, be respected and preserved thro’ other ages.”
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins ThorntonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar, for the Year of Our Lord ..; 1836
Author: John Quincy 1767-1848 AdamsPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013675911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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The Transylvania Library
Author: Transylvania University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A List of Old Periodicals, Transactions, Reports
Author: Transylvania College. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Sale Catalogues of British Government Publications, 1836-1921: 1836-1889
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Joint Documents of the State of Michigan for the Year ...
Author: MichiganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description