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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : American literature
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Pages : 420
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New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Pages : 452
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Check List of New Jersey Imprints, 1784-1800
Author: Lucile M. Morsch
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Pages : 118
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The American Baptist Almanac for the Year of Our Lord ...
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Pages : 604
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The Madras Almanac for the Year of Our Lord
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Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Almanacs, English
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Pages : 358
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Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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American Bibliography: 1799-1800. By C. K. Shipton
Author: Charles Evans
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Pages : 378
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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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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.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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