Author: Theodore Binnema
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly. Working from the company’s voluminous records, Ted Binnema demonstrates the significance of science in the company’s corporate strategies. Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning. The first study of scientific research in any chartered company over the entire course of its monopoly, Enlightened Zeal expands our understanding of social networks in science, establishes the vast scope of the HBC’s contribution to public knowledge, and will inspire new research into the history of science in other chartered monopolies.
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Royal Society of London Cataloogue of Scienctific Papers 1800-1900
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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7000-7999, Social sciences, 8000-8999, Natural sciences; 9000-9999, Technology
Author: Princeton University. Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of Other Periodical Works in the Library of the Smithsonian Institution, July 1, 1858
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382307758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382307758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
... Catalogue of the Described Diptera of North America
Author: Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
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Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of the Periodical Works in the Library of the Smithsonian Institution, July 1, 1858
Author: Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
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Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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