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Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2022-10-04T17:27:17Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521388849

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This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.

Author : Elizabeth Garber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461217660

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This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. The author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest.

Author : Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 0814206387

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Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.

Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262661287

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Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.