Doctor Alexander Garden of Charles Town
Title | Doctor Alexander Garden of Charles Town PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780807811221 |
This is a first biography of Alexander Garden, a famous physician of colonial times who was also an influential participant in the city of Charles Town's pre-Revolutionary intellectual and cultural life. His botanical interest and pursuits very much influenced the planting of Charleston's now famous gardens. The book will be valuable to the intellectual, cultural, and science historian in general and to botanists in particular. Originally published in 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town
Title | Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Science in the British Colonies of America
Title | Science in the British Colonies of America PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Phineas Stearns |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 822 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780252001208 |
Register of St. Philip's Parish Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758
Title | Register of St. Philip's Parish Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758 PDF eBook |
Author | St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Charleston (S.C.) |
ISBN |
St. Philip's Parish was a politically designated area of Charleston, S.C. A St. Philip's Church was noted among the christenings and is assumed to have been (still is?) in Charleston.
Empire of Brutality
Title | Empire of Brutality PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Michael Blakley |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2023-08-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807181005 |
In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses, was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise reduce the existence of the enslaved. Letters, memoirs, and philosophical treatises of the enslaved and formerly enslaved bear testament to the methods used to dehumanize them. In Empire of Brutality, Christopher Michael Blakley explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization of the enslaved. By reconsidering dehumanization in the light of human–animal relations, Blakley offers new insights into the horrific institution later challenged by Black intellectuals in multiple ways. Using the correspondence of the Royal African Company, specimen catalogs and scientific papers of the Royal Society, plantation inventories and manuals, and diaries kept by slaveholders, Blakley describes human–animal networks spanning from Britain’s slave castles and outposts throughout western Africa to plantations in the Caribbean and American Southeast. They combine approaches from environmental history, history of science, and philosophy to examine slavery from the ground up and from the perspectives of the enslaved. Blakley’s work reveals how African captives who became commodified through exchanges of cowry sea snails between slavers in the Bight of Benin later went on to collect zoological specimens in Barbados and Virginia for institutions such as the Royal Society. On plantations, where enslaved people labored alongside cattle, donkeys, horses, and other animals to make the agricultural fortunes of slaveholders, Blakley shows how the enslaved resisted these human–animal pairings by stealing animals for their own purposes—such as fugitives who escaped their slaveholder’s grasp by riding stolen horses. Because of experiences like these, writers and thinkers of African descent who survived slavery later attacked the institution in public as fundamentally dehumanizing, one that corrupted the humanity of both slaveholders and the enslaved.
The Papers of Henry Laurens
Title | The Papers of Henry Laurens PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Laurens |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 698 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780872493728 |
Disease, Medicine and Empire
Title | Disease, Medicine and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Macleod |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 2022-05-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000566153 |
Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.