... education is available in a series of letters that he wrote, when he was barely seventeen. Nicholas Cruger, who went to New York for his health (Hecht 8), left Hamilton in charge of the company. During this time, Hamilton sent out many letters, in them he passed judgment on loads of ... most useful part of his education; "it increased his knowledge of mathematics and gave him a taste for chemistry that made him a champion of its study- (Hecht 9). The influence and importance of this brief time as an entrepreneur affected Hamilton's concept of himself and stirred up a restlessness that he...

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... in prevailing development policies and practices, though not in ways that benefited women. Appropriating women's resources - land, time, food and energy resources, paid and unpaid labor, community networks for maintaining health, political and economic "insurance," and so on - was central to economistic development's most exploitative but "successful" practices. - Sandra Harding Many of the development policies, past and present alike, tend ... than men. There are great disparities between rights of men and of women to take hold of lands, even the women cultivated in that land not any ...

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