The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 24, 1876

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 24, 1876
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316851737

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 24 includes letters from 1876, the year in which Darwin published Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, and started writing Forms of Flowers. In 1876, Darwin's daughter-in-law, Amy, died shortly after giving birth to a son, Bernard Darwin, an event that devastated the family. The volume includes a supplement of 182 letters from earlier years, including a newly discovered collection of letters from William Darwin, Darwin's eldest son.

Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2024-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1003855547

The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."

The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 1

The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 1
Author: Katharine Anderson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040250521

HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Mexico in the Time of Cholera

Mexico in the Time of Cholera
Author: Donald Fithian Stevens
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826360564

This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.

Monthly Bulletin

Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Free Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1915
Genre: Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN: