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Book Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers

Download or read book Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers written by Tamara Plakins Thornton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book American Imprints Inventory

Download or read book American Imprints Inventory written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress

Download or read book Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Manuscript Division and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 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

Download or read book 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 written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI

Download or read book Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI written by Henry Stevens and published by London : C. Whittingham. This book was released on 1866 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Bibliography

Download or read book American Bibliography written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Dispersion and Belonging

Download or read book Between Dispersion and Belonging written by Amitava Chowdhury and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Book Check List of Massachusetts Imprints  1801

Download or read book Check List of Massachusetts Imprints 1801 written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General catalogue of printed books

Download or read book General catalogue of printed books written by British museum. Dept. of printed books and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at G  ttingen  v  1 4  Books printed between 1701 and 1800

Download or read book A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at G ttingen v 1 4 Books printed between 1701 and 1800 written by Bernhard Fabian and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Book American Bibliography  1799 1800  By C  K  Shipton

Download or read book American Bibliography 1799 1800 By C K Shipton written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Place index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Place index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Author index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: