03748nam 2200769 450 991079770540332120200520144314.0979-88-908792-1-90-8078-5678-91-4696-0095-1(CKB)3710000000538153(EBL)4321916(SSID)ssj0001591046(PQKBManifestationID)16290484(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591046(PQKBWorkID)13719163(PQKB)11532018(OCoLC)967540722(MdBmJHUP)muse48328(Au-PeEL)EBL4321916(CaPaEBR)ebr11149703(CaONFJC)MIL929298(OCoLC)935259574(MiAaPQ)EBC4321916(PPN)252683625(EXLCZ)99371000000053815320160209h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican curiosity cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world /Susan Scott ParrishChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,2006.©20061 online resource (342 p.)Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaIncludes index.0-8078-3889-6 0-8078-3009-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaNatural historyUnited StatesHistoryScienceSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryIntercultural communicationUnited StatesHistoryImperialismHistoryUnited StatesEthnic relationsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeGreat BritainIntellectual lifeGreat BritainColoniesAmericaUnited StatesRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsUnited StatesNatural historyHistory.ScienceSocial aspectsHistory.Intercultural communicationHistory.ImperialismHistory.508/.0973Parrish Susan Scott1532632Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797705403321American curiosity3778897UNINA