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  • Star Territory

    Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Gordon Fraser ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to ... Leer más

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  • Star Territory

    Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Gordon Fraser ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to ... Leer más

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    How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

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    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomyA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR'sScience Friday**Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Litera... ... Leer más

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  • River of Shadows

    Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

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  • Hollow Earth

    The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilization

    Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the surprising, marvelous, and just plain weird permutations his ideas have taken over the centuries. From science fiction to ... Leer más

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Leer más

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  • The Book That Changed America

    How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

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  • The Measure of Manhattan

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  • The U.S. Civil War

    A Very Short Introduction

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    More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic ... Leer más

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  • Time Lord

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    It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately threatened to impede progress. The creation of standard time, with its two ... Leer más

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  • The Peopling of British North America

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