Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 - 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

Informationen zum Autor J. Jefferson Looney is editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series! which is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation! Charlottesville! Virginia. Zusammenfassung The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson's opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetable

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas A. Jefferson, Jefferson Thomas
• Con la collaborazione di: J. Jefferson Looney (Editore), Looney J. Jefferson (Editore)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780691168296
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16829-6
• Pagine: 784
• Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series; Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Re; Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership