The Pox And The Covenant
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Author : Tony Williams
language : en
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Release Date : 2010
The Pox And The Covenant written by Tony Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Smallpox categories.
For one hundred years, God had held to his promise, and the colonists had as well. When the first Puritans sailed into Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, weak from the ocean journey, they formed a covenant with each other and with God to establish a city on a hill-a commitment to live uncorrupted lives together or all suffer divine wrath for their collective sin. But now, a century later, the arrival of one doomed ship would put this covenant to its greatest test. On April 22, 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, carrying goods, cargo, and, unbeknownst to its crew, a deadly virus. Soon, a smallpox epidemic had broken out in Boston, causing hundreds of deaths and panic across the city. The clergy, including the famed Cotton Mather, turned to their standard form of defense against disease: fasting and prayer. But a new theory was also being offered to the public by the scientific world: inoculation. The fierce debate over the right way to combat the tragedy would become a battle between faith and reason, one that would set the city aflame with rage and riot. The Pox and the Covenant is a story of well known figures such as Cotton Mather, James Franklin, and a young Benjamin Franklin struggling to fight for their cause among death and debate-although not always for the side one would expect. In the end, the incredible results of the epidemic and battle would reshape the colonists' view of their destiny, setting for America a new course, a new covenant, and the first drumbeats of revolution. Praise for Pox and the Covenant: A welcome shade of gray into the traditional depiction of Puritans as repressive and closed-minded - Boston Globe A fascinating aside to American medical history. - Publisher's Weekly With present-day controversy over vaccination, everything old is new again. And Williams' history is timely as well as engaging. - Booklist.
The Pox And The Covenant
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Author : Tony Williams
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
The Pox And The Covenant written by Tony Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Medicine categories.
After several days of skirting the North American coast, the Seahorse reached Boston, the largest city in the colonies, with a population of roughly eleven thousand souls. With such a large number of people, Boston rivaled the cities of mother England, save only for London. Boston was moreover one of the great hubs of the Atlantic trade network. It gathered goods from the farms of the New England hinterland and from smaller cities and ports along the American coast. These commodities were shipped all over the Atlantic which other goods were imported into the city and sent elsewhere. For a virus, a better place to contaminate could hardly be found ... Book jacket.
Stamped From The Beginning
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Author : Ibram X. Kendi
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Stamped From The Beginning written by Ibram X. Kendi and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with History categories.
Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself. ** Winner of the US National Book Award** Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the journey of racist ideas from fifteenth-century Europe to present-day America through the lives of five major intellectuals - Puritan minister Cotton Mather, President Thomas Jefferson, fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis - showing how these ideas were developed, disseminated and eventually enshrined in American society. Contrary to popular conception, it reveals that racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Instead, they were devised and honed by some of the most brilliant minds of each era, including anti-slavery and pro-civil rights advocates, who used their gifts and intelligence wittingly or otherwise to rationalize and justify existing racial disparities in everything from wealth to health. Seen in this piercing new light, racist ideas are shown to be the result, not the cause, of inequalities that stretch back over centuries, brought about ultimately through economic, political and cultural self-interest. Stamped from the Beginning offers compelling new answers to some of the most troubling questions of our time. In forcing us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about racism and also about ourselves, it leads us to a true understanding on which to build a real foundation for change. **INCLUDED IN BARACK OBAMA'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING LIST**
Smallpox
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Author : Lawrence Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-12-15
Smallpox written by Lawrence Andrews and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In a world riddled with diseases, there is only one that has been eliminated from humanity: smallpox. Learn about the compelling history of this disease, why it still exists in laboratories and research facilities around the world, and how what we learn about it now may affect humanitys future.
Hurricane Of Independence
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Author : Tony Williams
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Hurricane Of Independence written by Tony Williams and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from God, what this storm signified to the colonists about the justness of their cause would yield unexpected results. Drawing on ordinary individuals and well-known founders like Washington and Franklin, Tony Williams paints a stunning picture of life at the dawn of the American Revolution, and of the weighty choice people faced at that deciding moment. Hurricane of Independence brings to life an incredible time when the forces of nature and the forces of history joined together to produce courageous stories of sacrifice, strength, and survival.
The Jamestown Experiment
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Author : Tony Williams
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-02-01
The Jamestown Experiment written by Tony Williams and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with History categories.
The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia. The settlers who established America's first permanent English colony at Jamestown were not seeking religious or personal freedom. They were comprised of gentlemen adventurers and common tradesmen who risked their lives and fortunes on the venture and stood to reap the rewards—the rewards of personal profit and the glory of mother England. If they could live long enough to see their dream come to life. The Jamestown Experiment is the dramatic, engaging, and tumultuous story of one of the most audacious business efforts in Western history. It is the story of well-known figures like John Smith setting out to create a source of wealth not bestowed by heritage. As they struggled to make this dream come true, they would face relentless calamities, including mutinies, shipwrecks, native attacks, and even cannibalism. And at every step of the way, the decisions they made to keep this business alive would not only affect their effort, but would shape the future of the land on which they had settled in ways they never could have expected. The Jamestown Experiment is the untold story of the unlikely and dramatic events that defined the "self-made man" and gave birth to the American dream. Tony Williams taught history and literature for ten years, and has a master's in American history from Ohio State University. He wrote Hurricane of Independence and The Pox and the Covenant, and is currently a full-time author who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife and children.
The Ongoing Columbian Exchange
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Author : Christopher Cumo
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-02-25
The Ongoing Columbian Exchange written by Christopher Cumo and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-25 with History categories.
This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals. Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as "traditional" Native American life and culture—living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback, for example—came from the arrival of Europeans. This encyclopedia helps students acquire fundamental information about the Columbian Exchange through approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries on animals, plants, diseases, and items that were exchanged, accompanied by sidebars throughout that provide interesting discussions of key people, companies, and other related topics. The work begins with an introductory essay that overviews the Columbian exchange and not only addresses its biological and cultural components but also treats it as a political and economic event. The alphabetically organized entries cover topics ranging from the African slave trade, almonds, and alpacas to watermelon, whooping cough, and yellow fever. The encyclopedia also offers a chronology of the major events of the Columbian Exchange as well as 15 transcribed primary source documents that enable students to "look into history directly," including passages about the exchange that focus on the Irish Potato Famine, the slave trade, and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
2024
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Author : 伊布拉．肯迪Ibram X. Kendi
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 馬可孛羅
Release Date : 2024-05-09
2024 written by 伊布拉．肯迪Ibram X. Kendi and has been published by 馬可孛羅 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-09 with History categories.
從黑人出生的那刻起，他們／她們就已經被貼上了標籤 《生而被標籤》將細細爬梳種族歧視思想的歷史根源，重回黑人的命運時刻 作者肯迪教授認為，種族主義並不是生根於人們的無知與仇恨， 而是掌握權力的男男女女製造了種族主義、種族歧視政策，進而產生世上的無知與仇恨！ ★美國前總統歐巴馬盛讚 ★Amazon、Goodreads 2000人以上五顆星推薦 ★2016年美國國家圖書獎獲獎作品 ★2016年科克斯書評年度最佳歷史書籍得主 ★2016年有色人種促進協會形象獎最佳非小説類決選名單 ★東吳大學歷史系副教授盧令北、政治大學國際關係研究中心研究員嚴震生 專文導讀 本書英文書名Stamped from the Beginning，出自密西西比州參議員傑佛遜．戴維斯，於一八六○年四月十二日在美國參議院發表的演說。他後來當過美利堅邦聯總統，當時人在華盛頓特區反對一個補助黑人教育的法案。戴維斯向他的同僚大放厥詞，「這個政府不是由黑人、也不是為黑人創建的」，而是「由白人、為白人創建的」，他宣稱，補助黑人教育法案奠基於錯誤的種族平等觀念，「黑白種族之間的不平等」是「從黑人誕生前就被貼上了」。──伊布拉．肯迪 伊布拉．肯迪教授以編年的方式，在本書中詳實研究、完整記錄黑人種族歧視觀念的過程，及其在美國歷史發展中的驚人影響力。本書挑選了五位重要的美國知識份子，用他們的人生故事，讓我們一窺同化主義者與隔離主義者、種族歧視者與反種族歧視者之間的激烈辯論。這其中包括十七世紀末英國清教神學領袖柯頓．馬瑟，他賦予了奴隸制度正當性，把階級思想帶入北美殖民地；美國第三任總統湯瑪斯．傑佛遜，他在一八○○年力推廢止奴隸貿易，但卻並不反對奴隸制度；十九世紀初的威廉．蓋瑞森，他是激進的廢奴主義者；二十世紀初的杜波依斯，他推動黑人民權運動、泛非團結；以及至今仍在世的一九六○年代黑豹黨領導人安吉拉．戴維斯。透過這些人，我們可以看到美國支持奴隸制度與擁護黑人民權的優秀思想家們，如何鞏固或挑戰了美國的種族歧視觀念，以及背後的因素。 作者指出，跟一般人的認知不同，種族歧視的觀念並不是因為無知或仇恨而生，而是被每個時代某些最出色的人物催生琢磨出來的。種族歧視的觀念很容易製造，也很容易使用，但也會招來惡名。於是這些知識份子運用他們的優秀才能，為根深柢固的歧視政策和一國的種族差異辯護並加以合理化，不分貧富，無一不涉。他們羅織了許多貌似有理的理論，來加以正當化，就如同一八六○的參議員傑佛遜．戴維斯反對黑人教育法案的說詞，他說美國是為了白人而創建，不是為了黑人，黑白人種間的不平等是命定的、無法改變的，黑人無權享有跟白人同等的權利。 《生而被標籤》揭露了種族歧視觀念的歷史根源，讓我們警醒原來人類思想中有如此陰暗的一面，但本書也同時帶給我們改變社會觀念的希望。作者肯迪教授在美國國家圖書獎獲獎感言中曾提到，縱使他見證了種族主義最險惡的一面，但他也看到反種族主義最美善的一面，因此他始終沒有失去過信念，期許終有一日人類能擺脫種族主義的束縛，將人人生而平等的理念落實在社會中。 【國際書評】 引人入勝、規模宏大的美國偏見史… 肯迪毫不留情地剖析美國的種族觀念，找出其張力、矛盾及意外的結果。──華盛頓郵報 一部探討種族歧視新主題的書，但書寫方式也適合非學術人士閱讀。如果你對種族歧視觀念如何擴散到美國各地，就該讀這本書。──The Root 這是一本具有野心、研究詳實的書，值得任何想了解種族歧視的人一讀。──西雅圖時報 肯迪在這部傑作中探討種族歧視觀念及行為的歷史，綜觀美國歷史。種族歧視是美國良心永遠的傷痕。在這部宏大的巨著中，肯迪揭露這個傷痕有多深，為何難以痊癒，在皮下隱隱作痛，且仍會發炎。──科克斯書評 本書爬梳美國的種族歷史，指出許多本意良善的美國進步份子，不慎操作了沾染種族歧視遺毒的理念系統。──時代雜誌 本書展現了種族歧視觀念在美國有多根深柢固，將之清楚暴露出來批評一番。肯迪不只創作出一部偉大的學術著作，也提供了迫切所需的工具。──Buzzfeed 肯迪承認他寫作並不是為了改變製造及擁護種族歧視觀念的人。他承認，在他自己開始撰寫這部歷史巨作之前，他自己也深深抓著各種種族歧視觀念，他讓讀者跟著他一起走這一趟令人開眼界的旅程……肯迪留下許多自我質問的空間，在過去與現在的種族歧視辯護之間拉上關聯。這個閱讀過程相當發人省思、徹底啟發、不安而必要。──Vox 一部深刻（且經常讓人不安）的編年記述，探究反黑思想如何深植交織在美國社會中。──大西洋雜誌 肯迪有力的平等主義論點結合了驚人的閱讀與研究，加上敏銳的洞見，直視操縱種族歧視意識型態來抑制多元性的力量。喜愛美國歷史、政治、社會思想的嚴肅讀者必讀。──圖書館雜誌
America S Beginnings
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Author : Tony J. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2010-12-16
America S Beginnings written by Tony J. Williams and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with History categories.
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period—some known and some forgotten—from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention. Published in association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, America's Beginnings takes the reader throughout the American colonies and introduces many leading figures, from John Smith and John Winthrop to the Founding Fathers. Along the way, Williams examines the principles that led colonists to come to America and succeeding generations to become a free and independent nation. Read individually or from cover to cover, these stories illuminate the founding principles and heroic struggles that established the country and shaped the American character.
Vaccines E Book
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Author : Stanley A. Plotkin
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Vaccines E Book written by Stanley A. Plotkin and has been published by Elsevier Health Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with Medical categories.
From the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease, Plotkin’s Vaccines, 7th Edition, provides the expert information you need to provide optimal care to your patients. This award-winning text offers a complete understanding of each disease, as well as the latest knowledge of both existing vaccines and those currently in research and development. Described by Bill Gates as "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world," Plotkin’s Vaccines is a must-have reference for current, authoritative information in this fast-moving field. Includes complete information for each disease, including clinical characteristics, microbiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, epidemiology, and public health and regulatory issues – plus complete information for each vaccine, including its stability, immunogenicity, efficacy, duration of immunity, adverse events, indications, contraindications, precautions, administration with other vaccines, and disease-control strategies. Analyzes the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of different vaccine options. Helps you clearly visualize concepts and objective data through an abundance of tables and figures. Covers the new oral cholera and zoster vaccines, as well as newly licensed meningococcal group B vaccines and a newly licensed dengue vaccine. Brings you up to date on successful human trials of Ebola vaccines, an enterovirus 71 vaccine licensed in China, and new recommendations and changes to polio vaccines. Features a new chapter on maternal immunization.