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The Franklin Stove

An Unintended American Revolution

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

A Washington Post Noteworthy BookOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year So Far**“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary**“A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascin... ... Read more

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A Washington Post Noteworthy BookOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year So Far**“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary**“A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascin...
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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by ... Read more

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In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by
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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English ... Read more

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With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English
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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English ... Read more

$41.39 USD

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English
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An Anxious Pursuit

Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads ... Read more

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In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads
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The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Rereading the Principle of Population

by Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Read more

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An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published
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Food in Time and Place

The American Historical Association Companion to Food History

Edited by Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, Ken Albala ...

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation.Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state ... Read more

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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation.Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state
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Franklin Stove, The

An Unintended American Revolution

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

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A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of March"From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary"[Chaplin's] expansive claims for the Franklin stove’s importance click into place." ―Dan Piepenbring, Harper's"A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inve... ... Read more

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A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of March"From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary"[Chaplin's] expansive claims for the Franklin stove’s importance click into place." ―Dan Piepenbring, Harper's"A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inve...
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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

by Joyce E. Chaplin ...

Narrated by Joyce Bean ...

Unabridged

19 hours 53 min

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways tocircle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. Thestory begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when fewsurvived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with fiveships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship ... Read more

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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways tocircle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving,flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. Thestory begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when fewsurvived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with fiveships and two hundred and seventy men, but only one ship
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Memory Lands

King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

by Christine M. DeLucia ...

Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European ... Read more

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Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European
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Changes in the Land

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

by William Cronon, John Demos ...

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an
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The Barbarous Years

The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

by Bernard Bailyn ...

**Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Read more

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**Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden
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