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Hace 1 día · Joseph Priestley. Joseph Priestley FRS ( / ˈpriːstli /; [3] 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. [4] He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.
- 6 February 1804 (aged 70), Northumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Hace 23 horas · In the late 1760s and early 1770s, several colonies, including Massachusetts and Virginia, attempted to restrict the slave trade, but were prevented from doing so by royally appointed governors. [249] : 245 In 1774, as part of a broader non-importation movement aimed at Britain, the Continental Congress called on all the colonies to ban the importation of slaves, and the colonies passed acts ...
- 1765 to 1783
Hace 1 día · Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the imperial government led the 13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775.
- Colonies
- Various colonial arrangements
Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Catherine’s favourite in the 1770s, may be considered the chief architect of her imperial policy.He promoted large-scale foreign colonization and peasant resettlement in the south—with only mediocre success so far as agricultural settlements went but with great success in the foundation and rapid growth of such towns and ports as Odessa, Kherson, Nikolayev ...
Hace 4 días · Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in Bengal. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-5218-6145-8; 292pp.; Price: £50.00. In the course of a single generation, the British empire was transformed from being a network of self-governing Atlantic communities into a cluster of largely Asian territories ...
Hace 4 días · Price: £95.00. The historiography of the French Revolution is a diverse and ever expanding field. It is an eminently useful idea to produce a guide to it, though not one Oxford University Press is alone in having. In his introduction, David Andress, editor of the Handbook under review and himself a prolific contributor to this ...
Hace 1 día · 1679 Salem house, size 24'x18', to be built for £12. 1679 Boston house, size 34'x20', to be built for £130. 1733 Record describes a 16x22 dwelling house to be built in Cambridge MA for £61and a 20x24 house for £65.The latter ended up 4 feet wider than planned and cost £80 including labor.
