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“edwin danson”

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  • Weighing the World

    The Quest to Measure the Earth

    by Edwin Danson ...
    At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Drawing the Line

    How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America

    by Edwin Danson ...
    The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Danson’s definitive history of the creation of the Mason - Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to light in recent years.Features numerous updates and revisions reflecting new information that has come to light on surveyors Charles Mason and ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

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    In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. With over 100 black-and-white illustrations, Washington's fascinating story comes to life - revealing the real man, ... Read more

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  • The Mayflower

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    From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world."There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser . . . There is more to the Pilgrims' story—more to American identity and character—than our Thanksgiving rituals and reveries." — Wall Street ... Read more

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  • The Sugar Barons

    Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

    by Matthew Parker ...
    To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became ... Read more

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  • The Discovery of Weather

    Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869

    by Jerry Lockett ...
    In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers ... Read more

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  • White Debt

    The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    by Thomas Harding ...
    When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this ... Read more

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  • Black Loyalists

    Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

    by Ruth Holmes Whithead ...
    "Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history." —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My NameIn an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women ... Read more

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  • The Lion and the Fox

    Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

    by Alexander Rose ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him.In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral Britain, each entrusted with a vital mission.The South ... Read more

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  • Great Inventors and their Inventions

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  • Sugar and Slaves

    The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

    by Richard S. Dunn ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the ... Read more

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