Robert Polk Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Polk Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Polk |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | State Agency for Metrological and Technical Surveillance |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Caribbean after Grenada
Caribbeana has become a growth industry in the wake of the United States invasion of Grenada. The veritable explosion of analysis, speculation, and general academic interest in the area has produced a good deal of decent material which would have been ignored or never have appeared were it not for the tragic events of October 1983. The three books reviewed here are but the tip of an iceberg; yet they provide a good basis for examining the events …
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
Colonial Georgia
France and the Chesapeake
Response to field teaching essays
The widespread conviction that compensatory education has failed in America has led to an outpouring of lamentations, unctuous reminders from professional prophets of doom, reappraisals, and proposals concerning what we should do next. The essays on field teaching in the January 1972, PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION are a useful part of this swelling torrent. They are distinctive in two ways First, as they emanate from the field of special education…
William Tatham and the Culture of Tobacco
Colleges in the Revolutionary South
WHEN THE AMIERICAN WAR for Independence began, William and Mary was the only college located in the Southern colonies. By 1800 seventeen Southern schools held charters authorizing them to grant baccalaureate degrees, and eight of them had done so. (X) At least one college had been chartered in each of the Southern states, and collegiate instruction was being offered in localities that in 1760 had scarcely supported a writing master. Freed from th…
James Claypoole's Letter Book
The Americans
The Journal of John Harrower
The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815
Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783-1819
The Tobacco Export of the Upper James River Naval District, 1773-75
T THE golden leaf, tobacco, was long the staple of Virginia's plantation agriculture and the colony's most valuable export. No matter where a discussion started, Virginians could be expected to bring the topic around to tobacco. Burgesses in the Assembly and farmers at crossroad stores spent interminable hours discussing crop conditions and market prospects. The structure and state of the tobacco trade fundamentally affected Virginia's economy, p…
The Old Turk Policy of the New Turk
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The Old Turk Policy of the New Turk
Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783-1819
The Tobacco Export of the Upper James River Naval District, 1773-75
T THE golden leaf, tobacco, was long the staple of Virginia's plantation agriculture and the colony's most valuable export. No matter where a discussion started, Virginians could be expected to bring the topic around to tobacco. Burgesses in the Assembly and farmers at crossroad stores spent interminable hours discussing crop conditions and market prospects. The structure and state of the tobacco trade fundamentally affected Virginia's economy, p…
The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815
The Journal of John Harrower
The Americans
James Claypoole's Letter Book
William Tatham and the Culture of Tobacco
Colleges in the Revolutionary South
WHEN THE AMIERICAN WAR for Independence began, William and Mary was the only college located in the Southern colonies. By 1800 seventeen Southern schools held charters authorizing them to grant baccalaureate degrees, and eight of them had done so. (X) At least one college had been chartered in each of the Southern states, and collegiate instruction was being offered in localities that in 1760 had scarcely supported a writing master. Freed from th…
Response to field teaching essays
The widespread conviction that compensatory education has failed in America has led to an outpouring of lamentations, unctuous reminders from professional prophets of doom, reappraisals, and proposals concerning what we should do next. The essays on field teaching in the January 1972, PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION are a useful part of this swelling torrent. They are distinctive in two ways First, as they emanate from the field of special education…
France and the Chesapeake
Colonial Georgia
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
The Caribbean after Grenada
Caribbeana has become a growth industry in the wake of the United States invasion of Grenada. The veritable explosion of analysis, speculation, and general academic interest in the area has produced a good deal of decent material which would have been ignored or never have appeared were it not for the tragic events of October 1983. The three books reviewed here are but the tip of an iceberg; yet they provide a good basis for examining the events …
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