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The Franklin Stove

An Unintended American Revolution

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

A Washington Post Noteworthy BookOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year So Far**“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary**“A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascin... ... Leer más

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A Washington Post Noteworthy BookOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year So Far**“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary**“A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascin...
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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English ... Leer más

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With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English
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An Anxious Pursuit

Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads ... Leer más

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In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads
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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by ... Leer más

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In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by
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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English ... Leer más

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With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English
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Franklin Stove, The

An Unintended American Revolution

de Joyce E. Chaplin ...

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A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of March"From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary"[Chaplin's] expansive claims for the Franklin stove’s importance click into place." ―Dan Piepenbring, Harper's"A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inve... ... Leer más

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A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of March"From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary"[Chaplin's] expansive claims for the Franklin stove’s importance click into place." ―Dan Piepenbring, Harper's"A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inve...
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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways tocircle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. Thestory begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when fewsurvived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with fiveships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship ... Leer más

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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways tocircle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. Thestory begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when fewsurvived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with fiveships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship
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The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Rereading the Principle of Population

de Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Leer más

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An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published
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The First Scientific American

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

de Joyce Chaplin ...

Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations ... Leer más

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Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations
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Food in Time and Place

The American Historical Association Companion to Food History

Edición de Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, Ken Albala ...

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation.Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state ... Leer más

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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation.Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state
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The Life of Charlie Chaplin

de Joyce Milton ...

Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than ... Leer más

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Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than
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Nixon Agonistes

The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

de Garry Wills ...

With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Leer más

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With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising
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