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Franklin Stove
An Unintended American Revolution
Inbunden, 2025
312 kr
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The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit inside a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flat-pack furniture, the Franklin stove became one of the most famous consumer products of its era, spreading from Pennsylvania to England, Italy, and beyond. It was …
Franklin Stove
An Unintended American Revolution
E-bok, 2025
193 kr
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A Washington Post Noteworthy BookOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year So Far"e;[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era."e; -The New Yorker"e;From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges."e; -Stacy …
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Benjamin Franklin, Joyce E. Chaplin
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771–90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the Autobiography within the larger history of the …
Food in Time and Place
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Av Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1190 kr
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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 …
Food in Time and Place
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Av Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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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 …
Food in Time and Place
The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Av Ken Albala, Joyce E. Chaplin m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
749 kr
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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 …
Subject Matter
Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676
Häftad, 2003
465 kr
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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 …
New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Av Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin
Inbunden, 2016
505 kr
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The 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. …
New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Av Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin
Häftad, 2017
648 kr
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The 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. …
Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Häftad, 1996
516 kr
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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 …
Genealogies of Genius
Av Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon
Häftad, 2015
266 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant …
Genealogies of Genius
Av Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant …
Genealogies of Genius
Av Darrin M. McMahon, Joyce E. Chaplin
E-bok, 2015
339 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant …
Franklin Stove
An Unintended American Revolution
Häftad, 2026
267 kr
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A Washington Post Noteworthy Book One 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 …
Essay on the Principle of Population
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Thomas Robert Malthus, Joyce E. Chaplin
Häftad, 2017
217 kr
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With the first published version of Malthus’s Essay (1798) are selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). Accompanying the text is an introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin and a rich selection of supporting …
New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Av Joyce E. Chaplin, Alison Bashford
E-bok, 2016
470 kr
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An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of Malthus The 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 …
Round About the Earth
Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
Häftad, 2013
171 kr
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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt. …
Round About the Earth
Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
E-bok, 2012
196 kr
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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 …
Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
E-bok, 2012
402 kr
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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 …
