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Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education
George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement
Häftad, 1991
512 kr
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The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the …
Evan Pugh’s Penn State
America’s Model Agricultural College
Inbunden, 2018
250 kr
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When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his …
Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State
Inbunden, 2021
231 kr
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Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The …
Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Cure
Inbunden, 1997
879 kr
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This publication comprises the 170 letters written by the Abbe Dominique Chaix to Dr Dominique Villars between 1772 and 1799, when they were collaborating on the publication of the first flora for the old province of Dauphine. The letters reveal the uncertainties of plant classification in the …
Military Register of Custer's Last Command
Häftad, 2012
460 kr
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With so much written about the actual battle at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, Roger L. Williams has now compiled a wealth of data concerning the men of the 7th Cavalry at the time of the engagement. Military Register of Custer's Last Command presents for the first time the complete military …
Region of Astonishing Beauty
The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains
Häftad, 2003
259 kr
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As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his discovery of the bitterroot, the goal …
Guide To Rocky Mountain Plants, Revised
Häftad, 2002
238 kr
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A completely revised edition of Williams's previous work with the late Ruth Ashton Nelson, Handbook of Rocky Mountain Plants, this edition uses simple and clear keys to identify more than 350 species of plants found in the Rocky Mountain region from the United States to Canada. Useful in the …
