A Descriptive Account Of A Part Of The Island Of Jamaica: With Remarks Upon The Cultivation Of The Sugar-cane, ... Also Observatio
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revoluti... Read more
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>National Library of Scotland<ESTCID>T199738<Notes>In this issue the title opens with 'A descriptive account of a part of the island of Jamaica: ..' instead of 'A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: ..'.<imprintFull>London: printed for T. and J. Egerton, 1790. <collation>2v.; 8 Less
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  • 7.44 X 9.69 X 0.85 in
  • 416
  • Gale ECCO, Print Editions
  • August 6, 2010
  • English
  • 9781171436737
William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel write...
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