The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American TravelerYale University Press, 1. okt 2008 - 224 pages During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard’s eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer’s life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world’s first modern revolt against empire. |
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... labor. Work remained, in this revolutionary world of classical republicans, the province of the less educated: small farmers, women, children, servants, slaves, and the generally unfortunate. The male elite simply did not labor. But at ...
... labor. Work remained, in this revolutionary world of classical republicans, the province of the less educated: small farmers, women, children, servants, slaves, and the generally unfortunate. The male elite simply did not labor. But at ...
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... labor for the stomachs as well as the souls of their future converts. This laboring imperative coexisted awkwardly with economic reality. Few of the colonies' privileged sons would have aspired to live and work in Indian country, let ...
... labor for the stomachs as well as the souls of their future converts. This laboring imperative coexisted awkwardly with economic reality. Few of the colonies' privileged sons would have aspired to live and work in Indian country, let ...
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... labor. As if this were not bad enough, Calvin also accused Wheelock of selling the rice, coffee, flour, sugar, and clothes sent by donors for the students' use.8 Even Wheelock's most loyal and dedicated Indian students can hardly be ...
... labor. As if this were not bad enough, Calvin also accused Wheelock of selling the rice, coffee, flour, sugar, and clothes sent by donors for the students' use.8 Even Wheelock's most loyal and dedicated Indian students can hardly be ...
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... labor and there was no better place to do this than the college itself. By working in the fields of the college, students would not only help sustain the institution, they would also further their education.10 This work-study system ...
... labor and there was no better place to do this than the college itself. By working in the fields of the college, students would not only help sustain the institution, they would also further their education.10 This work-study system ...
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... labor expected of the “charity students,” as Wheelock called them. The work Ledyard would do would be of a more cerebral, cultivated kind. That Ledyard was free not to work is reflected in the college's ledgers. These list credits and ...
... labor expected of the “charity students,” as Wheelock called them. The work Ledyard would do would be of a more cerebral, cultivated kind. That Ledyard was free not to work is reflected in the college's ledgers. These list credits and ...
Contents
IV Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution | |
V Following the Revolution Home | |
VII Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jeffersons Paris | |
VIII Across the Russian Empire | |
IX Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine IIs Russia | |
X To Africa | |
Memories of the Traveler | |
Notes | |
Index | |
VI From Author to Fur Trader | |
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The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early ... Edward G. Gray No preview available - 2007 |
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