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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460048103321

Autore

O'Brien Michael <1948 Apr. 13->

Titolo

Intellectual life and the American South, 1810-1860 [[electronic resource] ] : an abridged edition of Conjectures of order / / Michael O'Brien ; foreword by Daniel Walker Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0401-9

0-8078-9564-4

Edizione

[[Abridged ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O'BrienMichael <1948 Apr. 13->

Disciplina

975/.03

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Southern States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Intellectual life

Southern States Social conditions 19th century

Southern States Relations Europe

Europe Relations Southern States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the position and course of the South -- The softened echo of the world -- All the tribes, all the productions of nature -- A volley of words -- The shape of a history -- Pride and power -- Philosophy and faith -- Epilogue : cool brains.

Sommario/riassunto

Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making of the American mind. Here O'Brien succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and works of many significant Southern intellectuals, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, James Henley Thornwell, and George Fitzhugh. Looking over the period, O'Brien identifies a movement from Enligh



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Record Nr.

UNISA996396941903316

Autore

Brunschwig Hieronymus <ca. 1450-ca. 1512.>

Titolo

The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprynted at London, : In Southwarke by Petrus Treueris, In the yere of our lorde god. M.D.xxv. [1525] and the. xxvi. day of Marche]

Descrizione fisica

[156] p. : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Surgery

Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of a Dutch version of: Buch der cirurgia.

Title page in red and black.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-S⁴ T⁶.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018