The Making Of John Ledyard

Author : Edward G. Gray
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300137811

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The Making of John Ledyard by Edward G. Gray Pdf

During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard’s eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer’s life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world’s first modern revolt against empire.

Author : Bill Gifford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0151012180

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Ledyard by Bill Gifford Pdf

Author : John Ledyard
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015060598284

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The Last Voyage of Captain Cook by John Ledyard Pdf

Ledyard's Siberian journals recount a harrowing journey through Russia under the rule of Catherine the Great, while his diary from Alexandria and Cairo provides a brilliant and rare account of Egypt before Napoleon's invasion. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.

Author : Andrej Svorenčík,Harro Maas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319209524

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The Making of Experimental Economics by Andrej Svorenčík,Harro Maas Pdf

This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills, community, laboratory, and funding. The transcript is preceded by an introduction explaining the method of the witness seminar and its specific set-up and resuming its results. The participants' contribution and their lively discussion provide a wealth of insights into the emergence of experimental economics as a field of research. This book was awarded with best book prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in 2018.

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Explorers
ISBN : UVA:X004286752

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The Life of John Ledyard by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Cambridge [Mass.] : Hilliard and Brown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : BL:A0020856458

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The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : John LEDYARD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018678947

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Travels and Adventures of John Ledyard ... Second edition [of “The Life of John Ledyard”]. [By Jared Sparks.] by John LEDYARD Pdf

Author : Jared SPARKS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017592236

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The Life of John Ledyard ... Second Edition by Jared SPARKS Pdf

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89077173201

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Life of John Ledyard, the American traveller by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Dane A. Morrison
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421442372

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Eastward of Good Hope by Dane A. Morrison Pdf

How did news from the East—carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence—shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites? Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History Freed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenas—the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and the American continent's Northwest coast)—Eastward of Good Hope recasts the relationship between America and the world by examining the early years of the republic, when its national character was particularly pliable and its foundational posture in the world was forming. Drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, Dane A. Morrison recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. He also demonstrates how the concept of justification through self-doubt allowed for aggressive expansionism and for the foundations of imperialism to develop. Morrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel "Eastward of Good Hope"? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, Eastward of Good Hope will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602066373

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The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller by Jared Sparks Pdf

Excerpt from Life of John Ledyard the American Traveller In executing this work, the only aim has been to bring together a series of facts which should do justice to the fame and character of a man, who possessed qualities and performed deeds, that rendered him remarkable, and are worthy of being remembered. If the author has been successful in this attempt, he is rewarded for the labor it has cost him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John H. Kagel,Alvin E. Roth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691213255

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The Handbook of Experimental Economics by John H. Kagel,Alvin E. Roth Pdf

This book, which comprises eight chapters, presents a comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. The first chapter provides an introduction to experimental economics as a whole, with the remaining chapters providing surveys by leading practitioners in areas of economics that have seen a concentration of experiments: public goods, coordination problems, bargaining, industrial organization, asset markets, auctions, and individual decision making. The work aims both to help specialists set an agenda for future research and to provide nonspecialists with a critical review of work completed to date. Its focus is on elucidating the role of experimental studies as a progressive research tool so that wherever possible, emphasis is on series of experiments that build on one another. The contributors to the volume--Colin Camerer, Charles A. Holt, John H. Kagel, John O. Ledyard, Jack Ochs, Alvin E. Roth, and Shyam Sunder--adopt a particular methodological point of view: the way to learn how to design and conduct experiments is to consider how good experiments grow organically out of the issues and hypotheses they are designed to investigate.

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5308062

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The Library of American Biography: The life of John Ledyard by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Travelers
ISBN : BSB:BSB10071006

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Life of John Ledyard, American Traveller by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1377483975

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Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, from His Journals and Correspondence by Jared Sparks Pdf

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