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American curiosity cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world

Susan Scott Parrish Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2006

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American curiosity cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world
Autor: Susan Scott Parrish
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Assuntos: Natural history -- United States -- History; Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Intercultural communication -- United States -- History; Imperialism -- History; Naturwissenschaften; Intellektueller; AuÇenpolitik; HISTÓRIA NATURAL (HISTÓRIA) -- ESTADOS UNIDOS; CIÊNCIA (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS HISTÓRIA) -- ESTADOS UNIDOS; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Intellectual life; Great Britain -- Intellectual life; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America; United States -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- United States; Geschichte
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Descrição: The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge
Editor: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press
Data de criação/publicação: c2006
Formato: xvi, 321 p. ill. 25 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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American curiosity cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world

Susan Scott Parrish Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2006

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