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Author : Cadwallader Colden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775] written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364615
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Stealing God's Thunder written by Philip Dray and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder and excitement and even fear comes beautifully to life. Philip Dray does a remarkable job of illuminating the ever-fascinating Franklin and, more than that, the way that he, and his invention, helped create the new scientific world.” –Deborah Blum, author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection Stealing God’s Thunder is a concise, richly detailed biography of Benjamin Franklin viewed through the lens of his scientific inquiry and its ramifications for American democracy. Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day it was otherwise. Long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work, especially his experiments with lightning and electricity. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment and America’s pursuit of political equality for all, Stealing God’s Thunder recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the greatest natural mysteries of his day, the seemingly unknowable powers of electricity and lightning. Rich in historic detail and based on numerous primary sources, Stealing God’s Thunder is a fascinating original look at one of our most beloved and complex founding fathers.
Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : University Publications of America
ISBN 13 : 9780890931806
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Early American Indian Documents written by Alden T. Vaughan and published by Washington, D.C. : University Publications of America. This book was released on 1979 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674066595
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Science written by I. Bernard Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin in fields ranging from heat to astronomy ; provides accounts of the theoretical backgroung of his science, the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the U.S.
Author : Jackson Turner Main
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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book The Anti-federalist Party, 1781-1788 written by Jackson Turner Main and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Serena Zabin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812220579
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Economies written by Serena Zabin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce created a fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371046
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
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Author : Paul Mahlon Hamlin
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Total Pages : 578 pages
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Author : Brandon Brame Fortune
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Franklin & His Friends written by Brandon Brame Fortune and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin & His Friends takes a new cross-disciplinary look at early American science through the lens of portraiture. Portraits by such accomplished American painters as Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale tell a unique story through imagery that defines not only likeness but also constructs the identity of the subject as a member of the larger community of science. Anchored by the figure - and portraits - of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), whose scientific reputation was universal within the Western republic of letters, this book also encompasses his scientific collegues, many of whom were his friends.
Author : John M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703501
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden written by John M. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century. While living in rural New York, he recruited family, friends, servants, and slaves into multiple scientific ventures and built a transatlantic network of contacts and correspondents that included Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus. Over several decades, Colden pioneered colonial botany, produced new theories of animal and human physiology, authored an influential history of the Iroquois, and developed bold new principles of physics and an engaging explanation of the cause of gravity.The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden traces the life and ideas of this fascinating and controversial "gentleman-scholar." John M. Dixon's lively and accessible account explores the overlapping ideological, social, and political worlds of this earliest of New York intellectuals. Colden and other learned colonials used intellectual practices to assert their gentility and establish their social and political superiority, but their elitist claims to cultural authority remained flimsy and open to widespread local derision. Although Colden, who governed New York as an unpopular Crown loyalist during the imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s, was brutally lampooned by the New York press, his scientific work, which was published in Europe, raised the international profile of American intellectualism.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British Empire Before the American Revolution: The British Isles and the American colonies: the northern plantations, 1748-1754 written by Lawrence Henry Gipson and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert William Glenroie Vail
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Total Pages : 580 pages
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Author : Michael G. Laramie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 509 pages
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Download or read book The European Invasion of North America written by Michael G. Laramie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource follows the pivotal and often overlooked efforts of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Dutch, the French, and the English colonies to control the strategic waterways of the Hudson-Champlain corridor from their discovery to the fall of New France. From Champlain and Hudson's initial voyages some 400 years ago, to the surrender of Montreal in 1760, The European Invasion of North America: Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson - Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760 offers unprecedented coverage of the 150-year struggle between New World rivals along this natural invasion route—a struggle which would ultimately determine the destiny of North America. Unlike other volumes on this period, The European Invasion of North America includes extensive coverage from the French and Dutch as well as British perspectives, examining events in the context of larger colonial confrontations. Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts, it recaps political maneuvers and blunders, military successes and failures, and the remarkable people behind them all: cabinet ministers in Paris, Amsterdam, and London; colonial leaders such as Stuyvesant, Frontenac, and Montcalm; shrewd diplomats of the Iroquois Confederacy; and soldiers and families on all sides of the conflict. It also highlights the growing friction between Britain and her American colonies, which would soon lead to a different war.
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book David Schuyler of Canajoharie, Mohawk Valley, New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Schuyler was probably born in Albany, New York. His parents were Peter Schuyler and Alida Van Schlichtenhorst. He married Anna Bratt (1700-1723), daughter of Dirk Bratt and Maritje van Epps, 17 July 1720. They had two children. He married Margaret and they had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York, Ohio and Michigan.
Author : Joan R. Gundersen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877158
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book To Be Useful to the World written by Joan R. Gundersen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women. Gundersen argues that women's lives varied greatly depending on race and class, but all women had to work within shifting parameters that enabled opportunities for some while constraining opportunities for others. Three generations of women in three households personalize these changes: Elizabeth Dutoy Porter, member of the small-planter class whose Virginia household included an African American enslaved woman named Peg; Deborah Franklin, common-law wife of the prosperous revolutionary, Benjamin; and Margaret Brant, matriarch of a prominent Mohawk family who sided with the British during the war. This edition incorporates substantial revisions in the text and the notes to take into account the scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication in 1996.
Author : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
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Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: General catalog written by Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
