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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: 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.
American Imprints Inventory
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi. [With] Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi [and] Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American & West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 [and] Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856
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Author: Henry StevensCatalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI.
Author: Henry StevensPublisher: London : C. Whittingham
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
American Bibliography
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Author: Amitava ChowdhuryPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of identity that expresses a form of belonging and also keeps alive a sense of difference. Between Dispersion and Belonging critically assesses the meaning and practice of diaspora first by engaging with the theoretical life histories of the concept, and then by examining a range of historical case studies. Essays in this volume draw from diaspora formations in the pre-modern Indian Ocean region, read diaspora against the concept of indigeneity in the Americas, reassess the claim for a Swedish diaspora, interrogate the notion of an "invisible" English diaspora in the Atlantic world, calibrate the meaning of the Irish diaspora in North America, and consider the case for a global Indian indentured-labour diaspora. Through these studies the contributors demonstrate that an inherent appeal to globality is central to modern formulations of diaspora. They are not global in the sense that diasporas span the entire globe, rather they are global precisely because they are not bound by arbitrary geopolitical units. In examining the ways in which academic and larger society discuss diaspora, Between Dispersion and Belonging presents a critique of modern historiography and positions that critique in the shape of global history. Contributors include William Safran (University of Colorado Boulder), James T. Carson (Queen's University), Eivind H. Seland (University of Bergen), Don MacRaild (University of Ulster), and Rankin Sherling (Marion Military Institute: the Military College of Alabama).
Check List of Massachusetts Imprints, 1801
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description