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Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem, Massachusets in 1773. He is frequently credited with being the father of modern maritime navigation. A brilli...

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This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditiona...

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian cul...

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An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...

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This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

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Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleash...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

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Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled th...

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In this uplifting personal story of her transformation 'from grumpy to grateful', Janice Kaplan encourages us to pause, take stock and be grateful ...

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Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as labouring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical...

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DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

DescriptionNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchang...

Sir John Hawkins was a naval commander and privateer during the Elizabethan era in the 16th century, who explored swathes of the New World amid dan...

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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

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This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

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Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

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