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Book The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 2

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 2 written by E A Wrigley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply and his work is seen as the foundation for population studies.

Book Andrew Fernando Holmes

Download or read book Andrew Fernando Holmes written by Richard W. Vaudry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes's name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the discovery of a congenital heart malformation known as the "Holmes heart." He also played a critical role in the creation of a scientific culture in early-nineteenth-century Montreal. Born in captivity at Cadiz, Spain, Holmes immigrated to Lower Canada in the first decade of the nineteenth century. He arrived in a province that was experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural change as the result of a long process of integration into the British Atlantic world. A transatlantic perspective, therefore, undergirds this biography, from an exploration of how Holmes's family members were participants in an Atlantic world of trade and consumption, to explaining how his educational experiences at Edinburgh and Paris informed his approach to the practice of medicine, medical education, and medical politics. This fascinating biography also examines Holmes's deepest religious convictions, positioning them at the centre of his work and life.

Book The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey  A Catalogue of the Magnificent     Library     Also of the Books of Prints  Galleries of Art  Curious Missals and Manuscripts  the Persian and Chinese Drawings   c      which Will be Sold by Auction  by Mr  Phillips  at the Abbey  on     the 9th of September  1823  and Nine Following Days  on     the 3d of October    Four Following Days  and on     23d October       Four Following Days

Download or read book The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey A Catalogue of the Magnificent Library Also of the Books of Prints Galleries of Art Curious Missals and Manuscripts the Persian and Chinese Drawings c which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr Phillips at the Abbey on the 9th of September 1823 and Nine Following Days on the 3d of October Four Following Days and on 23d October Four Following Days written by Fonthill abbey and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 1

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 1 written by E A Wrigley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply and his work is seen as the foundation for population studies.

Book Who Should Rule

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mónica Ricketts
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190494883
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Who Should Rule written by Mónica Ricketts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial reform: contentious consequences, 1760-1808 -- Towards a new imperial elite -- Merit and its subversive new roles -- The king's most loyal subjects -- From men of letters to political actors -- Imperial turmoil: conflicts old and new, 1805-1830 -- Liberalism and war, 1805-1814 -- Abascal and the problem of letters in Peru, 1806-1816 -- Pens, politics, and swords: a path to pervasive unrest, 1820-1830

Book  Lazy  Improvident People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth MacKay
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501728385
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Lazy Improvident People written by Ruth MacKay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before. Relying in part on late medieval and early modern political treatises about "vile and mechanical" labor, they claimed that previous generations of Spaniards had been indolent and backward. Through a close reading of the archival record, MacKay shows that such treatises and dramatic literature in no way reflected the actual lives of early modern artisans, who were neither particularly slothful nor untalented. On the contrary, they behaved as citizens, and their work was seen as dignified and essential to the common good. MacKay contends that the ilustrados' profound misreading of their own past created a propagandistic myth that has been internalized by subsequent intellectuals. MacKay's is thus a book about the notion of Spanish exceptionalism, the ways in which this notion developed, and the burden and skewed vision it has imposed on Spaniards and outsiders. "Lazy, Improvident People" will fascinate not only historians of early modern and modern Spain but all readers who are concerned with the process by which historical narratives are formed, reproduced, and given authority.

Book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature  and British and American Authors  Living and Deceased  from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History

Download or read book Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History written by Andreas Stynen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how ideas of the nation influenced ordinary people, by focusing on their affective lives. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain during the age of Revolutions to post-World War II Poland, it demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.

Book The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero America

Download or read book The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero America written by Brian Hamnett and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition. During a so-called period of ‘Enlightened Despotism’, absolutist governments in Spain and Portugal sought to harness Enlightenment ideas to their policies of reform. The Iberian Enlightenment, however, did not rely exclusively on government sponsorship – it had existing foundations in sixteenth-century Spanish humanism and subsequent attempts at reform, and educated individuals in major cities frequently operated independently of government. The Enlightenment contributed greatly to the availability of potential political solutions to the urgent matter of political status, in the attempt to transform absolutist governments into constitutional systems and drawing in the process on the structures of medieval foundations, contemporary revolutions or less radical constitutional monarchies, or a combination of sources more closely aligned with Ibero-American realities.

Book The Gardener and Botanist s Dictionary

Download or read book The Gardener and Botanist s Dictionary written by Philip Miller and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of W  Storry s general circulating library  Petergate  York  etc

Download or read book A Catalogue of W Storry s general circulating library Petergate York etc written by W. STORRY and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Download or read book El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alphabetical register of all the authors actually living in Great Britain  Ireland and in the united provinces of North America  with a catalogue of their publications  From the year 1770 to the year 1790

Download or read book Alphabetical register of all the authors actually living in Great Britain Ireland and in the united provinces of North America with a catalogue of their publications From the year 1770 to the year 1790 written by Jeremias David Reuss and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invention of Scarcity

Download or read book The Invention of Scarcity written by Deborah Valenze and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the varied ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs. She uses history, anthropology, food studies, and animal studies to redirect our attention to the margins of Malthus's essay, where activities such as hunting, gathering, herding, and gardening were rendered extraneous. She demonstrates how Malthus's omissions and his subsequent canonization provided a rationale for colonial imposition of British agricultural models, regardless of environmental diversity. By broadening our conception of human livelihoods, Valenze suggests pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. The Invention of Scarcity invites us to imagine a world where monoculture is in retreat and the margins are recentered as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing.

Book The British Soldier in the Peninsular War

Download or read book The British Soldier in the Peninsular War written by G. Daly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.