Books by "James Phinney Baxter"
7 books found
The Mission of Father Rasles as Depicted by Himself
by Benaiah Longley Whitman, George Augustus Wheeler, George Foster Talbot, George Freeman Emery, Henry Leland Chapman, Henry Otis Thayer, Henry Sweetser Burrage, James Phinney Baxter, John Francis Sprague, John Tripp, Joseph Williamson, Lauriston Ward Small, Maine Historical Society, Sébastien Rasles, William Edward Gould, Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings
1893
A settlement made in 1720 or earlier upon the Clarke and Lake purchase on the east side of the Kennebec River, under the efforts of the heirs and Robert Temple. It extended from the Eastern River down to Chop Point (territory now in Dresden and Woolwich)
Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing—his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them—requires that we rethink the relation of poststructural criticism to Poe's texts and, more generally, reconsider the relation of literature to communication. Cryptography serves not only as a template for the language, character, and themes of much of Poe's late fiction (including his creation, the detective story) but also as a "secret history" of literary modernity itself. "Both postwar fiction and literary criticism," the author writes, "are deeply indebted to the rise of cryptography in World War II." Still more surprising, in Rosenheim's view, Poe is not merely a source for such literary instances of cryptography as the codes in Conan Doyle's "The Dancing-Men" or in Jules Verne, but, through his effect on real cryptographers, Poe's writing influenced the outcome of World War II and the development of the Cold War. However unlikely such ideas sound, The Cryptographic Imagination offers compelling evidence that Poe's cryptographic writing clarifies one important avenue by which the twentieth century called itself into being. "The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content."—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College
Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution.
An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre–Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.
The Pioneers of New France in New England, with Contemporary Letters and Documents
by James Phinney Baxter
1894 · Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell's sons
The Last Tragedy of the Indian Wars
by Albert Russell Savage, Asa Dalton, Augustus Freedom Moulton, Charles Edwin Allen, Charles Mattocks, Clarence Hale, George Freeman Emery, Henry Leland Chapman, Henry Otis Thayer, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Horace Harmon Burbank, James Phinney Baxter, James William Black, John Carroll Perkins, Joseph Williamson, Maine Historical Society, Massachusetts. Governor (1760-1769 : Bernard)., Nathan Goold, Philip Willis McIntyre, Richard Webb, Samuel Thomas Dole, Solomon Burton Cloudman
1904
Relating to a plan considered by the British government during the American revolution, of severing the eastern part of Maine from Massachusetts and making it a separate province.