Böcker av William Clark

This collection of William Clark's letters to his brother Jonathan - many published for the first time - reveals important new details about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis's mysterious death, the status of Clark's slave, York, and life in Jeffersonian America.

This text explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.

Uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to consider the conditions of knowledge production in the world. The author argues that the research university developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication.