History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Author: Mercy Otis Warren

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789. Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.

Machines as the Measure of Men
Machines as the Measure of Men

Author: Michael Adas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780801497605

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This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.

Anglo-China
Anglo-China

Author: Christopher Munn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1136838457

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A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.

Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings
Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings

Author: Werner Stark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1317657373

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This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham's unsuccessful negotiations with the trasury on this matter.

The Government of New Hampshire
The Government of New Hampshire

Author: Leonard Samuel Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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"This little book had been prepared to meet the needs of the classes in civics in our New Hampshire schools and of the many citizens who desire more definite knowledge of New Hampshire government"--Preface

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Inventing the Feeble Mind

Author: James Trent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199396205

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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.