Ada

Ada

Author: Dorothy Stein

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9780262691161

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Uses excerpts from letters, memoirs, and documents to recreate the life of Ada Byron, daughter of the English poet, and discusses her contributions to mathematics and her friendships with the leading mathematicians of the period


The Sugar Barons

The Sugar Barons

Author: Matthew Parker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0802777988

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Traces the rise and fall of Caribbean sugar dynasties, discussing the Britain's dependence on colony wealth, the role of slavery in sugar plantation culture, and the North American colonial opposition to sugar policy in London.