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Autore |
Chaplin Joyce E |
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Titolo |
Subject matter : technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 / / Joyce E. Chaplin |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
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0-674-26261-1 |
0-674-02943-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Frontier and pioneer life - North America |
Colonists - North America - Attitudes |
Indians of North America - First contact with Europeans |
Imperialism - Social aspects - North America - History |
Human body - Social aspects - North America - History |
Science - Social aspects - North America - History |
Technology - Social aspects - North America - History |
North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Great Britain Colonies America Social conditions |
North America Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2001. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-389) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgment Prologue: Noses, or the Tip of the Problem PART I: Approaching America, 1500-1585 1. Transatlantic Background 2. Technology versus Idolatry? PART II: Invading America, 1585-1660 3. No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence 4. Domesticating America 5. Death and the Birth of Race PART III: Conquering America, 1640-1676 6. How Improvement Trumped Hybridity 7. Gender and the Artificial Indian Body 8. Matter and Manitou Coda Notes Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work alters the historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played. |
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