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The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720

By: Margaret C. Jacob

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The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720

By: Margaret C. Jacob

This book offers a social history of Newtonian natural philosophy from its inception after the 1688 revolution in England until the 1720's. Ms. Jacob shows that the Newtonian world view was adopted by the Anglican church to support its own version of liberal Protestantism and its vision of a social and economic order that would be both Christian and capitalist. It was with Newton's consent, she asserts, that Newtonianism took on an ideological significance in the early Enlightenment. Using an interdisciplinary approach to subjects traditionally reserved for the history of science, church history, and intellectual history, she formulates a convincing new explanation for the triumph of Newtonianism.

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Cornell University Press

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1501742256

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Sailing School

Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

By: Margaret E. Schotte

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Sailing School

Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

By: Margaret E. Schotte

Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Leo Gershoy Prize by the American Historical Association Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.

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322

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JHU Press

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1421429543

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9781421429540

Politics and Jobs

The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States

By: Margaret Weir

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Politics and Jobs

The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States

By: Margaret Weir

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.

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260

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Princeton University Press

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0691227853

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9780691227856

From Dependency to Independence

Economic Revolution in Colonial New England

By: Margaret Ellen Newell

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From Dependency to Independence

Economic Revolution in Colonial New England

By: Margaret Ellen Newell

In a sweeping synthesis of a crucial period of American history, From Dependency to Independence starts with the'problem'of New England's economic development. As a struggling outpost of a powerful commercial empire, colonial New England grappled with problems familiar to modern developing societies: a lack of capital and managerial skills, a nonexistent infrastructure, and a domestic economy that failed to meet the inhabitants'needs or to generate exports. Yet, less than a century and a half later, New England staged the war for political independence and the industrial revolution. How and why did this transformation occur? Marshaling an enormous array of research data, Margaret Ellen Newell demonstrates that colonial New England's economic development and its leadership role in these two American revolutions were interrelated.

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358

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Cornell University Press

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150170026X

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9781501700262

The Middling Sort

Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780

By: Margaret R. Hunt

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The Middling Sort

Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780

By: Margaret R. Hunt

To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. Commercial needs and social needs coincided to a large extent. The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy.

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Univ of California Press

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0520916948

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9780520916944

The Fabric of Welfare

Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840-2005

By: Margaret Tennant

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The Fabric of Welfare

Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840-2005

By: Margaret Tennant

Throughout history, the 'welfare of the people' has been a contested area. Is it the responsibility of the state? The churches? The extended family? Organised charities or informal community groups? The Fabric of Welfare is about the many points of contact between voluntary welfare and government social services, and the complex pattern woven by these different threads. The country's welfare history is shaped by its colonial past, with the predominantly British influences transmitted by an immigrant society in the nineteenth century; by its Maori population, with a strong communal ethos; by the shaping forces of the welfare state; by two world wars and economic depression; and by both free-market policies and rapid social change in recent years. In tracing the interdependence of state and voluntary provision of welfare from 1840 to 2005, Margaret Tennant offers new perspectives on New Zealand social history. This is a rigorous analysis, but it is also a history illuminated by people. The text is illustrated with stories about the people who were moved to save, to reform, to care, to support, and the people who needed that essential sustenance. From the nun who sees a distraught woman about to throw her child into the sea, and sets out to care for 'foundlings', to city missioners, community-minded public servants, businessmen philanthropists, and the entrepreneurial organisers of floral fetes and telethons, these accounts tell us much about the history of welfare, in all its interconnections.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1877242373

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9781877242373

Research Is a Passion With Me

The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

By: Margaret Morse Nice

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Research Is a Passion With Me

The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

By: Margaret Morse Nice

In her incredibly productive lifetime (1883-1974), American-born ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice earned the admiration of ornithologists and naturalists in far distant lands. Research Is a Passion With Me is an enthralling autobiography of one of the great individuals in her field and of her time. The prominent California nature writer, Donald Peattie, in commenting on Margaret Nice’s writing ability, stated: "Your art of telling is so good that it conceals how good the science is." And Professor Ernst Mayer of Harvard University said: "Margaret Nice was a remarkable person and only those who know the state of American ornithology when she started her work will appreciate her contribution." "An extraordinary bird watcher. Every summer she and her husband would gather the girls, pack their old car with camping gear, and head off into the wilds to look for new birds. This eccentric way of living was unusual in the early 1920s, but even their youngest daughter adjusted to it. Their older girls shinnied up trees to observe nests and helped in housekeeping tasks around the campsite." - Marcia Bonta, Bird Watcher’s Digest

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Dundurn

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1554882788

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9781554882786

Staged Diabetes Management

By: Roger Mazze,Richard M. Bergenstal,Robert Cuddihy,Ellie S. Strock,Amy Criego,Oded Langer,Gregg Simonson,Margaret A. Powers

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Staged Diabetes Management

By: Roger Mazze,Richard M. Bergenstal,Robert Cuddihy,Ellie S. Strock,Amy Criego,Oded Langer,Gregg Simonson,Margaret A. Powers

This new edition of the successful Staged Diabetes Management will again address the prominent issues of primary care diabetes management based on the International Diabetes Center’s "Staged Diabetes Management" program, which it advocates as part of its mission statement. This systematic treatment program consists of practical solutions to the detection and treatment of diabetes, its complications, and such areas as metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes and diabetes in children using evidence-based medicine. The text reviews the fundamental basis of diabetes management and then addresses treatment of each type of diabetes and the major micro- and macrovascular complications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047065466X

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9780470654668

The Little Black Book of Chicago

By: Margaret Littman,Peter Pauper Press

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The Little Black Book of Chicago

By: Margaret Littman,Peter Pauper Press

Provides information on attractions, restaurants, accommodations, shopping, arts, entertainment, and transportation in Chicago.

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Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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1441310738

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9781441310736

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

68 treasures of Massachusetts museum: Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, Inness, Remington in depth.

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Hudson Hills

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1555950507

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9781555950507

Loyalty and Loss

Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Margaret M. Storey

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Loyalty and Loss

Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Margaret M. Storey

Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause. Margaret M. Storey’s welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union when their state seceded in 1861—and beyond. Storey’s extensive, groundbreaking research discloses a socioeconomically diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks. By considering the years 1861–1874 as a whole, she clearly connects loyalists’ sometimes brutal wartime treatment with their postwar behavior.

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LSU Press

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0807130222

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9780807130223

Book's by Margaret S. Clark

The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720

The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720

Sailing School

Sailing School

Politics and Jobs

Politics and Jobs

From Dependency to Independence

From Dependency to Independence

The Middling Sort

The Middling Sort

The Fabric of Welfare

The Fabric of Welfare

Research Is a Passion With Me

Research Is a Passion With Me

Staged Diabetes Management

Staged Diabetes Management

The Little Black Book of Chicago

The Little Black Book of Chicago

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Loyalty and Loss

Loyalty and Loss

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