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Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), scientist, teacher, Christian : a biographical study of the connection of science with religion in antebellum America

Creator:

Schoepflin, Gary Lee

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A biographical study of Denison Olmsted, focusing upon his own Christian world view and its connection with his various activities in science, supports the view that religion served as a significant factor in the promotion of science in America during this time period. Olmsted taught physics, meteorology and astronomy at...

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Dissertation

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. Brookes Spencer, for several helpful discussions concerning Olmsted's natural theology; to Dr. Daniel P
The federal government and the fixed nitrogen industry, 1915-1926

Creator:

Clarke, Margaret Jackson

Abstract:

During the First World War, the need to secure a domestic supply of nitrate compounds necessary to the manufacture of explosives caused the federal government to undertake an extensive program of research and development of industrial nitrogen fixation processes. These government activities were to have far-reaching consequences for the development...

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Dissertation
Resource policy implications of animal rights activism : a demographic, attitudinal and behavioral analysis

Creator:

Jamison, Wesley V.

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The thesis analyzes the demographic, attitudinal and behavioral characteristics of animal rights activists, placing them in the context of resource policy. It is argued that the animal rights movement combined the Victorian critique of empiricism with a reaction to modernity that was characteristic of other contemporary mass movements. Animal rights...

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Dissertation

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Analysis Abstract approved: Abstract approved: David P. Froman William M. Lunch The thesis analyzes