Author: Johann BeckmannPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040657323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2)
Author: Johann BeckmannPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040657323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins
Author: Johann BeckmannA History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins
Author: John BeckmannPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
In revising Beckmann's celebrated Work, we have endeavoured to improve it principally by altering such names, characters, descriptions, and opinions as have become obsolete, or are now known to be erroneous; and by such additions as seemed necessary to bring the accounts of the subjects treated of to the present state of knowledge. In some cases, these additions may appear to diverge from the declared object of the work; but in this we have only followed the example of Beckmann himself, who frequently deviates from a strict historical path, and we think advantageously, for the purpose of introducing curious, instructive, or amusing information. In most cases, where the subject under consideration is a process of manufacture, we have given a brief outline of its practice or theory, unless this had previously been done by the author. The translation, also, has been carefully compared with the German, but in only a very few cases could we detect errors which rendered the passages contradictory or unintelligible: on the whole, it is extremely well executed; and too much praise cannot be given to Johnston, for the judicious manner in which he has embodied in one article, detached essays on the same subject, which Beckmannviii published at different periods, as he acquired fresh information.
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
Author: Theodore W. AllenPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689709
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special privileges in connection with being white. But by the early decades of the eighteenth century, that had all changed. Racial oppression became the norm in the plantation colonies, and African Americans suffered under its yoke for more than two hundred years. In Volume II of The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin. In response to labor unrest, where solidarities were not determined by skin color, the plantation bourgeoisie sought to construct a buffer of poor whites, whose new racial identity would protect them from the enslavement visited upon African Americans. This was the invention of the white race, an act of cruel ingenuity that haunts America to this day. Allen's acclaimed study has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a select bibliography and a study guide.
The Origins of Invention
Author: Otis Tufton MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries, Primitive
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins
Author: John BeckmannPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375234377X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by John Beckmann
Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets
Author: John FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A History of Wales
Author: Jane WilliamsIllustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Sources of Invention
Author: John JewkesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349000159
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.