Author: Society for Promoting Agriculture in the Province of Nova Scotia (NOVA SCOTIA)
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Letters and papers on agriculture: extracted from the correspondence of a Society instituted at Halifax for promoting agriculture in the province of Nova-Scotia. To which is added a selection of papers on ... husbandry, from ... the best publications ... in Europe and America
Author: Society for Promoting Agriculture in the Province of Nova Scotia (NOVA SCOTIA)
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
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Pages : 150
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Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Extracted from the Correspondence of a Society Instituted at Halifax for Promoting Agriculture in the Province of Nova-Scotia
Author: Society for promoting agriculture in the province of Nova Scotia, Halifax
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Spirit of Industry and Improvement
Author: Daniel Samson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government.
A Temperate Empire
Author: Anya Zilberstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190206608
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many early Americans believed that human activity and population growth were essential to moderating the harsh extremes of cold and heat in the New World. In the preindustrial British settler colonies in particular, it was believed that the right kinds of people were agents of climate warming and that this was a positive and deliberate goal of industrious activity, rather than an unintended and lamentable side effect of development. A Temperate Empire explores the ways that colonists studied and tried to remake local climates in New England and Nova Scotia according to their plans for settlement and economic growth. For colonial officials, landowners, naturalists, and other elites, the frigid, long winters and short, muggy summers were persistent sources of anxiety. These early Americans became intensely interested in reimagining and reducing their vulnerability to the climate. Linking climate to race, they assured would-be migrants that hardy Europeans were already habituated to the severe northern weather and Caribbean migrants' temperaments would be improved by it. Even more, they drew on a widespread understanding of a reciprocal relationship between a mild climate and the prosperity of empire, promoting the notion that land cultivation and the expansion of colonial farms would increasingly moderate the climate. One eighteenth-century naturalist observed that European settlement and industry had already brought about a "more temperate, uniform, and equal" climate worldwide-a forecast of a permanent, global warming that was wholeheartedly welcomed. Illuminating scientific arguments that once celebrated the impact of economic activities on environmental change, A Temperate Empire showcases an imperial, colonial, and early American history of climate change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190206608
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many early Americans believed that human activity and population growth were essential to moderating the harsh extremes of cold and heat in the New World. In the preindustrial British settler colonies in particular, it was believed that the right kinds of people were agents of climate warming and that this was a positive and deliberate goal of industrious activity, rather than an unintended and lamentable side effect of development. A Temperate Empire explores the ways that colonists studied and tried to remake local climates in New England and Nova Scotia according to their plans for settlement and economic growth. For colonial officials, landowners, naturalists, and other elites, the frigid, long winters and short, muggy summers were persistent sources of anxiety. These early Americans became intensely interested in reimagining and reducing their vulnerability to the climate. Linking climate to race, they assured would-be migrants that hardy Europeans were already habituated to the severe northern weather and Caribbean migrants' temperaments would be improved by it. Even more, they drew on a widespread understanding of a reciprocal relationship between a mild climate and the prosperity of empire, promoting the notion that land cultivation and the expansion of colonial farms would increasingly moderate the climate. One eighteenth-century naturalist observed that European settlement and industry had already brought about a "more temperate, uniform, and equal" climate worldwide-a forecast of a permanent, global warming that was wholeheartedly welcomed. Illuminating scientific arguments that once celebrated the impact of economic activities on environmental change, A Temperate Empire showcases an imperial, colonial, and early American history of climate change.
So Obstinately Loyal
Author: Susan Burgess Shenstone
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773524163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773524163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800
Author: Marie Tremaine
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042194
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Marie Tremaine's bibliography was first published by UTP in 1951 and is a cornerstone of bibliography and book history studies in Canada.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042194
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Marie Tremaine's bibliography was first published by UTP in 1951 and is a cornerstone of bibliography and book history studies in Canada.
Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America
Author: Henry Stevens
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Category : Amèrica
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Amèrica
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Historical Nuggets
Author: Henry Stevens (Jr.)
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Historical nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana or A descriptive account of my collection of rare books relating to America, H. Stevens (and H.N. Stevens).
Author: Henry Stevens
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress, June 30, 1849
Author: 1849 U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog
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Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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