April G Shelford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | April G Shelford |
| GIVEN NAMES | April G |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelford |
| SIGNATURE | SHELFORD A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue demonstrates how investigating topics related to the histories of science and technology illuminates themes of enduring importance in French and Francophone historical study—from policing female bodies to expressing patriotic anxieties. By documenting the circulation of people, ideas, information, artifacts, and technology within and beyond the Hexagon, these six articles help rethink French science and technology since the 170…
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France
Journal Article Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. Get access Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022. Pp. xii, 244. Cloth $60.00. April G. Shelford April G. Shelford American University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Buttons and Blood, or, How to Write an Anti-Slavery Treatise in 1770s Paris
This article contributes to our understanding of the rise and nature of French anti-slavery thought through a close analysis of ‘Observations sur les Négres esclaves’, an essay written by Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Fusée-Aublet (1720–1778) and published in his Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise (1775). A botanist, Fusée-Aublet worked in the Isle de France (now Mauritius) and French Guiana during the 1750s and 1760s in service to the Compag…
Race and scripture in the eighteenth-century French Caribbean
This article focuses on a 1730s debate about the causes and significance of human diversity, particularly that of Africans, between three French Caribbean clerics: Augustus Malfert, Jean-Baptiste Labat, and Jean Baptiste Margat de Tilly. Their ideas attest to the continuing importance of the biblical account in structuring thinking about human diversity; at the same time, they demonstrate how explanations thereof were shifting from largely religi…
Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Journal Article Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. Get access Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. (The Penn State Series in the History of the Book.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2011. Pp. 302. $74.95. April G. Shelford April G. Shelford American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Of Sceptres and Censors: Biblical Interpretation and Censorship in Seventeenth-Century France
In 1676 Pierre-Daniel Huet, scholar and tutor to the Dauphin, encountered difficulties with state censorship. Bishop Bossuet was blocking the publication of his Demonstratio evangelica, a recasting of an ancient Christian apologetic. The Sorbonne theologian and censor, Edme Pirot, was caught in the middle. An analysis of the interaction between these three men reveals Ancien Régime censorship as a series of negotiations shaped by the different st…
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal APRIL SHELFORD Bidding a final adieu to the distroyer of all constitutions," Antigua, H.M.S. Sterling Castle began the long voyage home to England on July 23, 1757, as part of a convoy of thirty vessels. William Milton, the ship's third lieutenant, may or may not have intended a pun with these parting words to the Caribbean. Nonetheless, they neatly encapsulate two of the concerns he expressed i…
Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio evangelica (1679)
Sometime after 1679, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721) indulged an author's vanity by comparing his Demonstratio evangelica with works whose authors are far better known today. He recorded his judgments on a scrap of paper. 1
Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's "Demonstratio evangelica" (1679)
François de La Mothe Le Vayer and the Defence of Pagan Virtue
The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science
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Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture
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New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Journal Article New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. By Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xii, 282 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-61875-0.) Get access Carla Rahn Phillips Carla Rahn Phillips University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, …
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Cultural Impact of an Encounter
Journal Article “New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Cultural Impact of an Encounter.” Gottesman Hall, New York Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St., New York, NY 10018 Get access Claudia L. Bushman Claudia L. Bushman New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 187–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079703 Published: 01 June 1993
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Journal Article New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. By Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xii, 282 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-61875-0.) Get access Carla Rahn Phillips Carla Rahn Phillips University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, …
Race and scripture in the eighteenth-century French Caribbean
This article focuses on a 1730s debate about the causes and significance of human diversity, particularly that of Africans, between three French Caribbean clerics: Augustus Malfert, Jean-Baptiste Labat, and Jean Baptiste Margat de Tilly. Their ideas attest to the continuing importance of the biblical account in structuring thinking about human diversity; at the same time, they demonstrate how explanations thereof were shifting from largely religi…
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal APRIL SHELFORD Bidding a final adieu to the distroyer of all constitutions," Antigua, H.M.S. Sterling Castle began the long voyage home to England on July 23, 1757, as part of a convoy of thirty vessels. William Milton, the ship's third lieutenant, may or may not have intended a pun with these parting words to the Caribbean. Nonetheless, they neatly encapsulate two of the concerns he expressed i…
Buttons and Blood, or, How to Write an Anti-Slavery Treatise in 1770s Paris
This article contributes to our understanding of the rise and nature of French anti-slavery thought through a close analysis of ‘Observations sur les Négres esclaves’, an essay written by Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Fusée-Aublet (1720–1778) and published in his Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise (1775). A botanist, Fusée-Aublet worked in the Isle de France (now Mauritius) and French Guiana during the 1750s and 1760s in service to the Compag…
François de La Mothe Le Vayer and the Defence of Pagan Virtue
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Cultural Impact of an Encounter
Journal Article “New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Cultural Impact of an Encounter.” Gottesman Hall, New York Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St., New York, NY 10018 Get access Claudia L. Bushman Claudia L. Bushman New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 187–192, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079703 Published: 01 June 1993
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Journal Article New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. By Anthony Grafton with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xii, 282 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-61875-0.) Get access Carla Rahn Phillips Carla Rahn Phillips University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, …
Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
François de La Mothe Le Vayer and the Defence of Pagan Virtue
Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio evangelica (1679)
Sometime after 1679, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721) indulged an author's vanity by comparing his Demonstratio evangelica with works whose authors are far better known today. He recorded his judgments on a scrap of paper. 1
Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's "Demonstratio evangelica" (1679)
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal
Sea Tales: Nature and Liberty in a Seaman's Journal APRIL SHELFORD Bidding a final adieu to the distroyer of all constitutions," Antigua, H.M.S. Sterling Castle began the long voyage home to England on July 23, 1757, as part of a convoy of thirty vessels. William Milton, the ship's third lieutenant, may or may not have intended a pun with these parting words to the Caribbean. Nonetheless, they neatly encapsulate two of the concerns he expressed i…
Of Sceptres and Censors: Biblical Interpretation and Censorship in Seventeenth-Century France
In 1676 Pierre-Daniel Huet, scholar and tutor to the Dauphin, encountered difficulties with state censorship. Bishop Bossuet was blocking the publication of his Demonstratio evangelica, a recasting of an ancient Christian apologetic. The Sorbonne theologian and censor, Edme Pirot, was caught in the middle. An analysis of the interaction between these three men reveals Ancien Régime censorship as a series of negotiations shaped by the different st…
Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Journal Article Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. Get access Jane McLeod. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. (The Penn State Series in the History of the Book.) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2011. Pp. 302. $74.95. April G. Shelford April G. Shelford American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Race and scripture in the eighteenth-century French Caribbean
This article focuses on a 1730s debate about the causes and significance of human diversity, particularly that of Africans, between three French Caribbean clerics: Augustus Malfert, Jean-Baptiste Labat, and Jean Baptiste Margat de Tilly. Their ideas attest to the continuing importance of the biblical account in structuring thinking about human diversity; at the same time, they demonstrate how explanations thereof were shifting from largely religi…
Buttons and Blood, or, How to Write an Anti-Slavery Treatise in 1770s Paris
This article contributes to our understanding of the rise and nature of French anti-slavery thought through a close analysis of ‘Observations sur les Négres esclaves’, an essay written by Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Fusée-Aublet (1720–1778) and published in his Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise (1775). A botanist, Fusée-Aublet worked in the Isle de France (now Mauritius) and French Guiana during the 1750s and 1760s in service to the Compag…
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France
Journal Article Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. Get access Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss. The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022. Pp. xii, 244. Cloth $60.00. April G. Shelford April G. Shelford American University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue demonstrates how investigating topics related to the histories of science and technology illuminates themes of enduring importance in French and Francophone historical study—from policing female bodies to expressing patriotic anxieties. By documenting the circulation of people, ideas, information, artifacts, and technology within and beyond the Hexagon, these six articles help rethink French science and technology since the 170…
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