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