Discourse, on the Objects and Importance of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science
Author: Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 56
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Author: Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 56
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 434
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 430
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9781422377901
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 778
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0226829626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"--
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 446
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 88
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 546
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