LEADER 04626nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910454568203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02943-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029439 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786776 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050632 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000253181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237570 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186006 035 $a(PQKB)10998945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300155 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10313873 035 $a(OCoLC)923109362 035 $a(DE-B1597)574574 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029439 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786776 100 $a20001003d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSubject matter$b[electronic resource] $etechnology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 /$fJoyce E. Chaplin 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (432 p. ) $cill 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-674-00453-1 311 $a0-674-01122-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-389) and index. 327 $aList 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 330 $aThis work alters the historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played. 330 $bWith 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. 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zNorth America 606 $aColonists$zNorth America$xAttitudes 606 $aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with Europeans 606 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 607 $aNorth America$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xSocial conditions 607 $aNorth America$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aColonists$xAttitudes. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with Europeans. 615 0$aImperialism$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a973.17 686 $aTB 2355$2rvk 700 $aChaplin$b Joyce E$0900501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454568203321 996 $aSubject matter$92449044 997 $aUNINA