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An Anxious Pursuit

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

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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An Anxious Pursuit

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

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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 developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chaplin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provied the labor necessary to attain planters' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world. Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chaplin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in theories of progress as an outright rejection of those ideas.

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0807838306

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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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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 colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire. In Chaplin's account of the earliest contacts, we find the English--impressed by the Indians' way with food, tools, and iron--inclined to consider Indians as partners in the conquest and control of nature. Only when it came to the Indians' bodies, so susceptible to disease, were the English confident in their superiority. Chaplin traces the way in which this tentative notion of racial inferiority hardened and expanded to include the Indians' once admirable mental and technical capacities. Here we see how the English, beginning from a sense of bodily superiority, moved little by little toward the idea of their mastery over nature, America, and the Indians--and how this progression is inextricably linked to the impetus and rationale for empire.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029437

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The First Scientific American

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

By: Joyce Chaplin

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The First Scientific American

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

By: Joyce Chaplin

Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations that he could master nature, Franklin showed the world that he was uniquely suited to solve problems in every realm. In the famous adage, Franklin "snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from the tyrants" -- in that order. The famous kite and other experiments with electricity were only part of Franklin's accomplishments. He charted the Gulf Stream, made important observations on meteorology, and used the burgeoning science of "political arithmetic" to make unprecedented statements about America's power. Even as he stepped onto the world stage as an illustrious statesman and diplomat in the years leading up to the American Revolution, his fascination with nature was unrelenting. Franklin was the first American whose "genius" for science qualified him as a genius in political affairs. It is only through understanding Franklin's full engagement with the sciences that we can understand this great Founding Father and the world he shaped.

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Basic Books

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0465008852

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The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Rereading the Principle of Population

By: Alison Bashford,Joyce E. Chaplin

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The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Rereading the Principle of Population

By: Alison Bashford,Joyce E. Chaplin

This book 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 anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.

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Princeton University Press

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0691177910

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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416596208

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The First Scientific American

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

By: Joyce Chaplin

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Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

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Round About the Earth

Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

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Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

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Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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An Anxious Pursuit

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

By: Joyce E. Chaplin

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

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Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

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Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

Examines the life and writings of James Joyce, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108486

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Joyce Kilmer;

By: Robert Cortes Holliday,Joyce Kilmer

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Joyce Kilmer;

By: Robert Cortes Holliday,Joyce Kilmer

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376681609

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Summer of Love: By Joyce Kilmer

By: Joyce Kilmer

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Summer of Love: By Joyce Kilmer

By: Joyce Kilmer

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1010956507

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