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Hace 2 días · Benjamin Franklin would later testify in Parliament in 1766 to the contrary, reporting that Americans already contributed heavily to the defense of the Empire. He argued that local colonial governments had raised, outfitted, and paid 25,000 soldiers to fight France in just the French and Indian War alone—as many as Britain itself sent—and spent many millions from American treasuries doing so.
- 1765 to 1783
Hace 2 días · David Hume ( / hjuːm /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) [7] was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, [8] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. [1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human ...
Hace 5 días · Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein ( French: [an lwiz ʒɛʁmɛn də stal ɔlstajn]; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël ( French: [madam də stal] ), was a prominent woman of letters and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and ...
- 14 July 1817 (aged 51), Paris, France
27 de mar. de 2024 · Frederick V (born March 31, 1723, Copenhagen—died Jan. 14, 1766, Copenhagen) was the king of Denmark and Norway (1746–66) from the death of his father, Christian VI.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
25 de mar. de 2024 · Thomas Malthus, English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This thinking is commonly referred to as Malthusianism.
- Who was Thomas Malthus?Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply...
- Where was Thomas Malthus educated?Thomas Malthus was educated largely at home until his admission in 1784 to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied many subjects and took prizes...
- What did Thomas Malthus write?In 1798 Thomas Malthus published anonymously An Essay on the Principle of Population. In subsequent editions (published from 1803 to 1826), he expa...
- How did Thomas Malthus influence the world?Thomas Malthus’s ideas influenced public policy (such as reforms of the English Poor Laws) and the work of economists, demographers, and evolutiona...
Hace 2 días · Germaine de Staël (born April 22, 1766, Paris, Fr.—died July 14, 1817, Paris) was a French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist, and conversationalist, who epitomized the European culture of her time, bridging the history of ideas from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.
29 de mar. de 2024 · Revision Notes. Steven G. Mlodinow revised the account. Claire Walter contributed to the Similar Species section, Peter Pyle contributed to the Plumages, Molts, and Structure page, and Guy Kirwan contributed to the Systematics page.
