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Gunpowder, Explosives and the State
Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first...
Our Young Family
Thomas Young was born in about 1747 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Naomi Hyatt, daughter of Seth Hyatt and Priscilla, in about 1768. They had four children. Thomas died in 1829 in North Carolina. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe
It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany intersected with mining, metallurgy, pharmacy, and gardening, materials were objects that crossed disciplines. Here, the contributors tell the stories of metals, clay, gunpowder, pigments, and foods, and thereby demonstrate the innovative practices of technical experts, the developm...
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The Devil In New York
Struggling to provide for his ailing daughter following his wife’s tragic demise, Daniel finds himself trapped in a relentless financial quagmire. With his credit in shambles and loans to support an unattainable luxury, his daughter’s life-saving surgery hangs precariously in the balance. It’s in this dire moment that Victor, a lifelong friend, proposes a robbery as their last, desperate lifeline. With his daughter safely entrusted to her aunt’s care in anticipation of her surgery, Daniel, against his better judgment, acquiesces. But what begins as a desperate gamble transforms into a nightmare. It seems Daniel wasn’t the only one to break into 28 Sherman Circle that night. Now there are four dead bodies in the house and Daniel’s fingerprints are at the scene of the crime. Arrested and facing insurmountable odds, Daniel’s salvation arrives in the form of Ari Rimmer, a prominent lawyer. Yet the offer of freedom carries an ominous undertone. An unsettling feeling nags at him, casting a shadow over Ari’s benevolence. As Daniel races against relentless pursuers hell-bent on his demise, he uncovers a web of deception and corruption.
Saltpeter
The story of the science, the technology, the politics and the military applications of saltpeter - the vital but mysterious substance that governments from the Tudors to the Victorians regarded as an 'inestimable treasure'.
Islanders
Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished, and appealing portrait, much of it in the islanders? own words. The 15 islands not accessible by bridge that still have year-round populations are: Isle au Haut, Islesboro, the Cranberry Isles (near Mt. Desert Island), Eagle Island, Long Island (Frenchboro), Long Island (Casco Bay), Matinicus, Monhegan, North Haven, Swans Island, Vinalhaven, Peaks, Chebeague, Great Diamond, and Cliff.
Warning Before Destruction
Johnny Ewing was a young successful realtor aiming to move up in life know matter what it took are who had to die. He moved to Oklahoma City hoping to open a casino.Never realizing the amount of money he would need to make it happen. Johnny figured out how to manipulate a whole town to get what he wants. A wise person once said "when you dig a hole for one person you better dig two, because the other one is for you."
Quick Pivot
1968 A cunning thief skimmed a half a million dollars from the textile mill that was the beating heart of Riverside, Maine. Sharp-eyed accountant George Desmond discovered the discrepancy, but was killed before he could report it. After stashing the body, the thief-turned-killer manipulated evidence to make it appear Desmond skipped town with the stolen money, ruining his good name forever. Present Day Veteran journalist Joe Gale is covering a story for the Portland Daily Chronicle when a skeleton falls at his feet: Desmond's bones have been found in a basement crawl space at the long-shuttered mill. For Joe, digging into the past means retracing the steps his mentor Paulie Finnegan had taken years ago, when the case was still open. But the same people who bird-dogged Paulie four decades ago are watching Joe now. As he closes in on the truth, his every move is tracked…and the murderer proves more than willing to kill again. 87,000 words
Performing the Past
Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --
