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Author : Jane Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Botanic Manuscript written by Jane Colden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Botanic Manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766 written by Jane Colden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Botanic Manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766 written by Jane Colden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hallock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807861650
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book From the Fallen Tree written by Thomas Hallock and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers. Hallock provides an alternative to the myth of a vacant wilderness found in later writings. Emphasizing shared cultures and conflict in the border regions, he reconstructs the milieu of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, William Bartram, and James Fenimore Cooper, as well as lesser-known figures such as Lewis Evans, Jane Colden, Anne Grant, and Elias Boudinot. State papers, treaty documents, maps, and journals provide a rich backdrop against which Hallock reinterprets the origins of a pastoral tradition. Combining the new western history, ecological criticism, and native American studies, Hallock uncovers the human stories embedded in descriptions of the land. His historicized readings offer an alternative to long-accepted myths about the vanishing backcountry, the march of civilization, and a pristine wilderness. The American pastoral, he argues, grew from the anxiety of independent citizens who became colonizers themselves.
Author : Paula Ivaska Robbins
Publisher : Purple Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780916346805
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Jane Colden written by Paula Ivaska Robbins and published by Purple Mountain Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In eighteenth-century America, 'A female botanist was a rare thing to contemplate,' according to Raymond Phineas Stearns in his 1970 compendium, Science in the British Colonies of America. The daughter of the colonial lieutenant governor of the colony of New York and a naturalist well known to the international circle of botanists, Jane Colden became her father's protâegâe. She corresponded regularly with several of her father's friends, exchanging information about plants. Jane produced an herbal describing in both words and drawings 341 plants that grew in and around her father's 3,000-acre estate west of Newburgh, New York. The manuscript now resides in the Natural History Museum of London." -- cove
Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129068
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Hudson written by Tom Lewis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson River has always played a vital role in American culture. Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the great river uniquely connects America's past with its present and future. This book traces the course of the river through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers and traders, artists and writers, entrepreneurs and industrialists, ecologists and preservationists-those who have been shaped by the river as well as those who have helped shape it. Their compelling narratives attest to the Hudson River's distinctive place in American history and the American imagination. Among those who have figured in the history of the Hudson are Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Astors and the Vanderbilts, and Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Their stories appear here, alongside those of such less famous individuals as the surveyor who found the source of the Hudson and the engineer who tried to build a hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain. Inviting us to view the river from a wider perspective than ever before, this entertaining and enlightening book is worthy of its grand subject.
Author : Anna Murray Vail
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Jane Colden written by Anna Murray Vail and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498290221
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes studies the books these women read and the reasons why they read them. As Hayes notes, recent studies on the literary tastes of early American women have concentrated on the post-revolutionary period, when several women novelists emerged. Yet, he observes, women were reading long before they began writing and publishing novels, and, in fact, mounting evidence now suggests that literacy rates among colonial women were much higher than previously supposed. To reconstruct what might have filled a typical colonial woman’s bookshelf, Hayes has mined such sources as wills and estate inventories, surviving volumes inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, borrowing records from subscription libraries, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Hayes identifies several categories of reading material. These range from devotional works and conduct books to midwifery guides and cookery books, from novels and travel books to science books. In his concluding chapter, he describes the tensions that were developing near the end of the colonial period between the emerging cult of domesticity and the appetite for learning many women displayed. With its meticulous research and rich detail, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.
Author : Carol A. Biermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507794
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Women in the Biological Sciences written by Carol A. Biermann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-07-16 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology textbooks and books on the history of science generally give a limited picture of the roles women have played in the growth and development of the biological sciences, mentioning primarily the Nobel laureates. This book provides a definitive archival collection of essays on a larger group of women, profiling both their work and their lives. The volume includes 65 representative women from different countries and eras, and from as many branches of biological investigation as possible. In addition to biographical information and an evaluation of the woman's career and significance, each entry provides a full bibliographic listing of works by and about the subject. The volume includes entries on women who have gained recognition through attainment of advanced degrees despite familial and societal pressures, innovative research results, influence exerted in teaching and guidance of students, active participation and leadership in professional societies, extensive scholarly publication, participation on journal editorial boards, extensive field experience, and influence on public and political scientific policymaking. A woman was considered eligible for inclusion if she met several of these criteria. Providing a historical perspective, the book is limited to women who were born before 1930 or are deceased.
Author : Pnina G. Abir-Am
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512563
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives written by Pnina G. Abir-Am and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science. An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.
Author : Philip Ranlet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076187142X
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776 written by Philip Ranlet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.
Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317237005
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education written by Brian Attebery and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, anthropology, and communication. Exploring issues of methodology and their practical application, this narrative project speaks to the construction of identity for the liberal arts in today’s higher education climate. Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community focuses on the ways a cross-disciplinary emphasis on narrative can impact institutions in North America and contribute to the discussion of strategies to foster bottom-up, faculty-driven collaboration and innovation.
Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137278250
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries written by Tom Shachtman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh exploration of the scientific pursuits of the Founding Fathers that reveals their science as critical to the great political "experiment" of the day
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Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Torreya written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Botanical Garden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
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Download or read book Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall Avery Howe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Torreya, a Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News written by Marshall Avery Howe and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera Norwood
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617447
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Made From This Earth written by Vera Norwood and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists. Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's "nature" and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature.
