Dr. John Mitchell, Naturalist, Cartographer, and Historian
Author | : Lyman Carrier |
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Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Lyman Carrier |
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Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : Edmund Berkeley |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2018-08-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146965010X |
This is the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America. He left a well-established medical practice in his native Virginia in 1746 to live in London where he became active in scientific, social, and political circles. One of the period's outstanding cartographical achievements, Mitchell's map served as the basis for the Treaty of 1783 and for the still-existing United States-Canadian border. Originally published in 1974. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Edmund Berkeley |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807896181 |
Dr. John Mitchell: The Man Who Made the Map of North America
Author | : Edmund Berkeley (jr) |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America. He left a well-established medical practice in his native Virginia in 1746 to live in London where he became active in scientific, social, and political circles. One of the period's outstanding cartographical achievements, Mitchell's map served as the basis for the Treaty of 1783 and for the still-existing United States-Canadian border. Originally published in 1974. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Total Pages | : 1934 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Author | : Paul Kopperman |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822972433 |
On July 9, 1755, an army of British and American soldiers commanded by Major General Edward Braddock marched toward a major western outpost held by the French, confident of an easy victory. Suddenly, they were attacked by a much smaller force of French and Indian fighters-Braddock's army was destroyed, its commander fatally wounded, and supplies and secret papers were lost to the enemy. Paul E. Kopperman has used all of the known eyewitness reports of Braddock's defeat-some never before printed-to present an exciting critical account of this definitive battle in the French and Indian War. Braddock at the Monongahela is a synthesis of in-depth analysis of primary source materials, thoughtful evaluation of previous studies on the subject, and Kopperman's own persuasive interpretation.
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Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Iowa |
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Author | : National Agricultural Library (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Iowa |
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Author | : Anya Zilberstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0190206616 |
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.