Author: Cadwallader Colden
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden ... 1711-[1775]
Author: Cadwallader Colden
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Fever of 1721
Author: Stephen Coss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147678311X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege; Samuel Adams. During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death--by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather's house was firebombed. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution". -4ème de couv.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147678311X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege; Samuel Adams. During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death--by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather's house was firebombed. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution". -4ème de couv.
William Douglass, Man of the American Enlightenment, 1691-1752
Author: Raymond Muse
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America, &c
Author: William Douglass
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Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Concord, Mass., Jan. 1, 1875
Author: Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Port Folio
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776
Author: Philip Ranlet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076187142X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076187142X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.
The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Pages : 570
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Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ...
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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From Humors to Medical Science
Author: John Duffy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252017360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252017360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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