| | Author: | Taylor, Robert Eveleigh. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An inaugural disputation, concerning the varieties of the human race, July 1800, 1830
| | | | Dates: | 1830 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains a manuscript copy of John Taylor’s dissertation titled “An inaugural disputation, concerning the varieties of the human race.” Taylor delivered this lecture at the University of Edinburgh in July 1800 to fulfill one of the requirements for a medical degree. The essay touches on many of the prominent theories about racial differences then circulating in the Atlantic World. Taylor, for instance, discusses the influence of climate on the different races and how geography affects the health.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.572.2.T2li.b | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | African American | Beyond Early America | Medicine | | | | Genre: | Dissertations | Educational Material | Manuscript Essays | Scientific Data | | | | Subjects: | Blacks. | Race. | |
| | Author: | Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Isaiah Thomas papers, 1767-1800
| | | | Dates: | 1767-1800 | | | | Abstract: | This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1233 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Genre: | Microfilm Collection | | | | Subjects: | Printers. | |
| | Author: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | This dictionary, compiled during John Kirk Townsend’s travels between 1834 and 1836, contains English translations for some words in Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Language and Linguistics | Native America | | | | Genre: | Language Material | Native American Materials | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Salishan languages | Walla Walla Indians | |
| | Author: | Trevelyan, Charles E.(Charles Edward),1807-1886. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The natural process by which a conquered people in an inferior grade of civilization adopt the language and system of learning of their more civilized conquerors, 1832
| | | | Dates: | 1832 | | | | Abstract: | This manuscript essay from 1832 was written by Charles Trevelyan, the governor of Madras. Broken into eleven sections, he outlines the ways in which imperial governments can force assimilation and acculturation through state policies and institutions in India.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.954.T725 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Topics: | Beyond Early America | | | | Genre: | Manuscript Essays | | | | Subjects: | Imperialism. | |
| | Author: | Trowbridge, C. C.(Charles Christopher),1800-1883. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa Indians: traditions of the Lenee Lenaupee or Delawares: and, language of the Delawares, [ca. 1825]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1825 | | | | Abstract: | This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.
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| | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.883 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Genre: | Microfilm Collection | | | | Subjects: | Delaware Indians | Delaware language | |
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