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A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
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The story of William Small's life is exceptional in that it is as much a quest as it is a biography. Although Small had profound influences on Thomas Jefferson as his mentor and only professor, on James Watt as his promoter and collaborator on the steam-engine, on Matthew Boulton, as an advisor and partner to the first great industrial giant, an

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Release dateFeb 22, 2022
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A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt: the Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
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Martin Clagett

MARTIN CLAGETT has investigated the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution for over twenty years. His research has taken him to the archives of America, England and Scotland. In the course of his investigations he received a grant from the Earhart Foundation; he was a Visiting Scholar to the James Wilson Programme at St Andrews; named a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia; appointed as the Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville, and served as the Omohundro Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary. Among his written works have been William Small and James Wilson: The Scottish Connection, a Study in the Influences of the Scottish Enlightenment (Charlottesville: Robert H. Smith Center for Jefferson Studies, 2007), The Portrait of William Small by Tilly Kettle. Privately Printed (Richmond: Dietz Press, 2007), Scientific Jefferson: Revealed (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009), "Jefferson and Science," Dictionary of Virginia Biography (2013), "James Wilson-His Scottish Background: Corrections and Additions," Pennsylvania History" A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Spring 2012), and "Thomas Clapp and the Scottish Enlightenment," The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment," Vol. 1 (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2015).

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