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The Land of Enterprise

A Business History of the United States

By: Benjamin C. Waterhouse

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The Land of Enterprise

A Business History of the United States

By: Benjamin C. Waterhouse

Charting the development of American business from the colonial period to the present.

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288

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1476766649

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9781476766645

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts

By: Benjamin Waterhouse

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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts

By: Benjamin Waterhouse

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts", by Benjamin Waterhouse. Benjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School (1754-1846).

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224

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CreateSpace

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ISBN 10

1507658699

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9781507658697

Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826

The Empire of the Mind

By: Benjamin Stephen Haller

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Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826

The Empire of the Mind

By: Benjamin Stephen Haller

This book explores the influence of classical texts upon early European settlers and inhabitants of the Tidewater region of Virginia, addressing how Greek and Roman literature and culture shaped and sometimes challenged prevailing assumptions about personhood, liberty, town planning, and representative government in Virginia during the period of its expansion from the fort at Jamestown to Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia. Ben Haller introduces the reader to the Ovid translation which George Sandys penned during his time in Virginia as Treasurer; William Strachey’s account of the wreck of the Sea Venture, likely one inspiration for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; William Byrd II’s writings, including his secret diaries which record the intimate details of the life of an Indian Trader and plantation owner in the early eighteenth century; and Jefferson’s expansive Enlightenment Era appetite for knowledge classical and modern. Haller’s analysis of these texts is carefully anchored in a discussion of the cultural historical context of the English settlement of Virginia, the excavations of Pompeii, the eighteenth-century mania for Palladian architecture, the construction of the campus of the University of Virginia, and new Enlightenment ideals of personal liberty and human rights which came to the fore during Jefferson’s lifetime, and which he helped to enshrine in modern American political thought.

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395

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793643288

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9781793643285

Big Brother and the Grim Reaper

Political Life After Death

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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Big Brother and the Grim Reaper

Political Life After Death

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies but also securing loyalty and obedience by extending citizens’ lives and promising to effectuate the postmortem fulfillment of citizens’ antemortem desires. The state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void.

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MSU Press

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1628955295

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9781628955293

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The Land of Enterprise

The Land of Enterprise

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts

Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826

Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia’s Tidewater Region, 1607–1826

Big Brother and the Grim Reaper

Big Brother and the Grim Reaper

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