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Aimed at those working on stove projects or manufacture of ceramic
stoves, this books offers clear explanations of some of the causes
of the problems encountered while the stove is in use and gives
straightforward methods of avoiding them. The findings of a
clay-testing programme carried out with a number of different Asian
and African clays are outlined and results show a strong
correlation between the clay/non-clay ratio. It describes a method
of clay testing, the clay/non clay ratio measurement technique
which will reduce the chance of stoves failing through thermally
induced stress.
Peter C. Messer demonstrates that a strong sense of a shared past
transformed British subjects into American citizens. He traces the
emergence of distinctively American attitudes about society,
politics, and government through the written history of the
American experience. Stories of Independence argues that the way
early Americans wrote about their own history-from colonial times,
to the heady days of the Revolution, to the uneasy decades
following independence-helped shape the future of this young
nation. Differences between American colonists and the British
government became increasingly contentious over the course of the
eighteenth century as distinctive American identities emerged among
the colonists. Grounded in common values and the shared experiences
of creating communities in a new world, these identities would
eventually liberate Americans to declare their independence and
experiment with new forms of government. During the colonial
period, provincial historians celebrated the autonomous origins and
local institutions of their communities as a way of arguing for
greater independence from Great Britain. Imperial historians, on
the other hand, stressed allegiance to the mother country and the
English institutions that continued to sustain them. When relations
with Britain reached a crisis, these visions of provincial pride
and imperial loyalty came into open and irreconcilable conflict.
The resulting debate produced not only a declaration of
independence but a new political order grounded on the provincial
vision of the origins and progress of America. When the political
turmoil of the 1780s and 1790s threatened to fragment the new
republic, historians turned to the provincial vision of history to
fashion a past for their nation from which they could create a
unifying national identity. Their stories of the drive for
independence and the founding of the United States helped both
cement and limit the innovations in political thought produced by
their provincial and revolutionary predecessors.
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