The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
Author: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300192002

"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.

The Ogden Family In America, Elizabethtown Branch, And Their English Ancestry; John Ogden, The Pilgrim, And His Descendants, 1640-1906

The Ogden Family In America, Elizabethtown Branch, And Their English Ancestry; John Ogden, The Pilgrim, And His Descendants, 1640-1906
Author: William Ogden Wheeler
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9789354416033

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Early Settlers of Orange County, Florida

Early Settlers of Orange County, Florida
Author: Betty Jo Stockton
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508644606

A reprint of the 1915 book written by C. E. Howard. Added index of names, places and topics.

The Century of the Gene

The Century of the Gene
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674039432

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.