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An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform [vol 1]
Author:
Christopher Hoolihan
Published:
2001
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction (from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby), venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education. These books, covering areas largely ignored by the medical profession, made important contributions to the health of the American public, and the collection is a vital piece of medical history. The collector is Edward C. Atwater, professor emeritus of medicine and the history of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School.
Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner Library.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-580-46098-9
Price:
£90.00
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An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform [vol 2]
Author:
Christopher Hoolihan
Published:
2004
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This is a catalog of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America. Though written primarily by people with professional competence, the books described within are directed to a non-medical audience. They teach humananatomy, physiology, hygiene, sanitation, temperance, and diet; how to maintain or regain health, or how to cope with illness, especially when no professional help was available. They also deal with reproduction: how to do it, how to limit it; how to deliver and care for a baby; the special health needs of women; the closeted world of venereal disease. Physical fitness is another important part of the collection, with books on exercise, recreation and travel for health. And there are works which tell what to do until a doctor comes; or what to do in times of epidemics; of home nursing and cooking for invalids; and how to treat all manner of sickness and injury. It was generally the popular writers who emphasized the importance of preventive medicine and a healthful regimen, and the need for public sex education. In these areas, largely ignored by the regular medical profession, the popular literature made important contributions to the health of citizens and the history of medicine. This book constitutes Volume II of a two-volume catalogue (M-Z), and represents the collective work of Edward Atwater, an emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School. Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner Library.
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ISBN 978-1-580-46115-3
Price:
£70.00
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An Englishman's Journey along America's Eastern Waterways
Author:
Seymour I. Schwartz
Published:
2001
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian minister from Brighton, England,came to the United States in the spring of 1831, and spent several months traveling in the northeast. His travels took him from New York, where his ship landed, to Philadelphia, eastern Pennsylvania, then back to New York, up the Hudson River to Albany, across the entire state on the six-year-old Erie Canal. He stopped in Utica, Rochester, and Buffalo, noting the rapid growth of these cities, especially Rochester, that had occurred in the few years the canal had been open. From Buffalo he crossed into Canada, traveling east along Lake Ontario, past Toronto (then called York) to Ottawa and Montreal; he returned through Lake Champlain to Albany and New York, and continued south to Baltimore and Washington, returning to Philadelphia once again in order to set sail for England. Holtham recorded his impressions of both urban and rural scenes, the people and their opinions, family life, church life and activities, and reports of many conversations he had while traveling. The journal of his travels provides a superior set of impressions of America at the time from a man who brought his skills of perception to the transcription. Beyond the words, the journal contains 30 marvelous pencil and ink drawings of what he saw; scenes of Niagara Falls and downtown Rochester accompany paintings of the Capitol in Washington, a carriage operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, is Distinguished Alumni Professor of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical School. Schwartz is an expert on historical maps, especially of America. His avid interest in American History is evidenced by his published books, The Mapping of America and The French and Indian Wars. He is a member of the boards of the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution and the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress.
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ISBN 978-1-580-46079-8
Price:
£19.99
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This volume brings the Domestic Calendar to the end of the secretaryship of Sir Charles Hedges, and the appointment of Lord Sutherland in his place. Drawn from several categories of State Papers, the records contain the usual mixture of high politics and local concerns, though they are far from insular: Marlborough's second great victory, at Ramillies, is reported and celebrated, for example, and communications are improved with the forces in northern Europe.
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ISBN 978-1-843-83251-5
Price:
£150.00
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David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
Author:
Mark G. Spencer
Published:
2005
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical writings and to have rejected entirely Hume's "Tory" History of England. James Madison, if he used Hume's ideas in Federalist No. 10, it is commonly argued, thought best to do so silently--open allegiance to Hume was a liability. Despite renewed debate about the impact of Hume's political ideas in America, existing scholarship is often narrow and highly speculative. Were Hume's works available in eighteenth-century America? If so, which works? Where? When? Who read Hume? To what avail? To answer questions of that sort, this books draws upon a wide assortment of evidence. Early American book catalogues, periodical publications, and the writings of lesser-light thinkers are used to describe Hume's impact on the social history of ideas, an essential context for understanding Hume's influence on many of the classic texts of early American political thought. Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, was readily available, earlier, and more widely, than scholars have supposed. The History of England was read most frequently of all, however, and often in distinctive ways. Hume's History, which presented the British constitution as a patch-work product of chance historical developments, informed the origins of the American Revolution andHume's subsequent reception through the late eighteenth century. The 326 subscribers to the first American edition of Hume's History (published in Philadelphia in 1795/96) are more representative of the History's friendly reception in enlightened America than are its few critics. Thomas Jefferson's latter-day rejection of Hume's political thought foreshadowed Hume's falling reputation in nineteenth-century America. BR
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ISBN 978-1-580-46118-4
Price:
£50.00
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English Public Opinion and the American Civil War
Author:
Duncan Andrew Campbell
Published:
2003
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
At the end of the American Civil War, both North and South condemned Britain for allegedly sympathising with the other side. Yet after the conflict, a traditional interpretation of the subject arose which divided English sentimentbetween progressivism siding with the Union and conservatism supporting the Confederacy. Despite historians subsequently questioning whether English opinion can be so easily divided, challenging certain aspects and arguments of this version of events, the traditional interpretation has persevered and remains the dominant view of the subject. This work posits that English public and political opinion was not, in fact, split between two such opposing camps- rather, that most in England were suspicious of both sides in the conflict, and even those who did take sides did not consist largely of any one particular social or political group. Covering the period from 1861 to 1865, Campbell traces the development of English opinion on the American Civil War, looking particularly at reaction to issues of slavery, neutral rights, democracy, republicanism, American expansionism,trade and propaganda. In so doing he offers a new interpretation of English attitudes towards the American Civil War.
DUNCAN ANDREW CAMPBELL lectures in the Department of American Studies, University of Wales Swansea.
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ISBN 978-0-861-93263-4
Price:
£40.00
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The Battle of Yorktown, 1781: A Reassessment
Author:
John D. Grainger
Published:
2005
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Yorktown [1781], where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American Warof Independence. This accessible and authoritative account of the battle and the wider campaign goes back to original source material [diaries, letters, speeches, and newspapers], offering both a narrative of the events themselves, and an analysis of how the defeat came about and why it came to be seen as crucial. It shows that the battle was really a siege, that it involved relatively few numbers, and relatively little fighting, and was not immediately seen as decisive, with the war continuing for a further two years. It sets the battle and campaign in the wider context of a war which included action in the West Indies, Europe, Africa, Asia, and at sea; shows how movements of theFrench and British navies were a crucial factor; and, overall, reassesses the causes and significance of the battle.
JOHN D. GRAINGER, a former school-teacher, is the author of numerous books on military history, rangingfrom the Roman period to the twentieth century.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83137-2
Price:
£50.00
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