04702nam 2200793Ia 450 991077818350332120221103135512.00-674-26261-10-674-02943-710.4159/9780674029439(CKB)1000000000786776(StDuBDS)AH23050632(SSID)ssj0000253181(PQKBManifestationID)11237570(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253181(PQKBWorkID)10186006(PQKB)10998945(Au-PeEL)EBL3300155(CaPaEBR)ebr10313873(OCoLC)923109362(DE-B1597)574574(DE-B1597)9780674029439(DE-B1597)586312(DE-B1597)9780674262614(MiAaPQ)EBC3300155(EXLCZ)99100000000078677620001003d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSubject matter[electronic resource] technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 /Joyce E. ChaplinCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20011 online resource (432 p. )illOriginally published: 2001.0-674-00453-1 0-674-01122-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-389) and index.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 IndexThis work alters the historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played.With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire. In Chaplin's account of the earliest contacts, we find the English--impressed by the Indians' way with food, tools, and iron--inclined to consider Indians as partners in the conquest and control of nature. Only when it came to the Indians' bodies, so susceptible to disease, were the English confident in their superiority. Chaplin traces the way in which this tentative notion of racial inferiority hardened and expanded to include the Indians' once admirable mental and technical capacities. Here we see how the English, beginning from a sense of bodily superiority, moved little by little toward the idea of their mastery over nature, America, and the Indians--and how this progression is inextricably linked to the impetus and rationale for empire.Frontier and pioneer lifeNorth AmericaColonistsNorth AmericaAttitudesIndians of North AmericaFirst contact with other peoplesImperialismSocial aspectsNorth AmericaHistoryHuman bodySocial aspectsNorth AmericaHistoryScienceSocial aspectsNorth AmericaHistoryTechnologySocial aspectsNorth AmericaHistoryNorth AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Great BritainColoniesAmericaSocial conditionsNorth AmericaRace relationsFrontier and pioneer lifeColonistsAttitudes.Indians of North AmericaFirst contact with other peoples.ImperialismSocial aspectsHistory.Human bodySocial aspectsHistory.ScienceSocial aspectsHistory.TechnologySocial aspectsHistory.973.17TB 2355rvkChaplin Joyce E900501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778183503321Subject matter3671692UNINA