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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish



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Autore: Parrish Susan Scott Visualizza persona
Titolo: American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina: 508/.0973
Soggetto topico: Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History
Intercultural communication - United States - History
Imperialism - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Ethnic relations
United States Intellectual life
Great Britain Intellectual life
Great Britain Colonies America
United States Relations Great Britain
Great Britain Relations United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American curiosity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-5678-9
1-4696-0095-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460610103321
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Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia