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 colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire.
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With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our h...
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 developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and...
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in ...
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"Contexts" presents a broader view of Franklin's life with a journal entry from a 1726 voyage, correspondence, aPoor Richard piece on ambition and fame, Franklin's views on self-improvement, and his last will (and codicil). "Criticism" draws on a wealth of material that reflects both the wide range of Franklin's achievements and the global impact of his life and memoirs. New international voices in "Contemporary Opinions" include Immanuel Kant, Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez, and Jose Francisco Correia da Serra. "Nineteenth-Century...
"Contexts" presents a broader view of Franklin's life with a journal entry from a 1726 voyage, correspondence, aPoor Richard piece on ambitio...
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 of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food...
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 foundat...
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 of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food...
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 foundat...
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 that has been only recently identified by modern science, but instead a categorical mode of assessing human ability and merit. Second, as a concept with specific definitions and resonances, genius has performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it had a historical...
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 d...
- An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin - Malthus'sEssay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). - An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics includ "Influences on Malthus," "Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus," "Malthus and Global Challenges," and "Malthusianism in Fiction. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
- An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin - Malthus'sEssay in its first published version (1798) along with selection...
