Subject matter [[electronic resource] ] : technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 / / Joyce E. Chaplin

• Autore: Chaplin Joyce E
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 973.17
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Great Britain Colonies America Social conditions; North America Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: TB 2355
• Note generali: Originally published: 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-389) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This work alters the historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played.
• Titolo autorizzato: Subject matter
• ISBN: 0-674-02943-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454568203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II