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Author : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Release : 1970
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science in the British Colonies of America by : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Download or read book Science in the British Colonies of America written by Raymond Phineas Stearns. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Burns
Release : 2005-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Science and Technology in Colonial America by : William E. Burns
Download or read book Science and Technology in Colonial America written by William E. Burns. This book was released on 2005-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy—what we call science—such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all aspects of how science and technology impacted the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. Science and Technology in Everyday Life in Colonial America covers a wide range of topics that will interest students of American history and the history of science and technology: * Domestic technology—how colonial women devised new strategies for day-to-day survival * Agricultural—how Native Americans and African slaves influenced the development of a American system of agriculture * War—how the frequent battles during the colonial period changed how industry made consumer goods This volume includes myriad examples of the impact science and technology had on the lives of individual who lived in the New World.
Author : Eleanor Louisa Lord
Release : 1896
Genre : Great Britain
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Book Synopsis Industrial Experiments in the British Colonies of North America by : Eleanor Louisa Lord
Download or read book Industrial Experiments in the British Colonies of North America written by Eleanor Louisa Lord. This book was released on 1896. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Scott Parrish
Release : 2012-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 896/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Curiosity by : Susan Scott Parrish
Download or read book American Curiosity written by Susan Scott Parrish. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
Author : Lucile H. Brockway
Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 434/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science and Colonial Expansion by : Lucile H. Brockway
Download or read book Science and Colonial Expansion written by Lucile H. Brockway. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.
