American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish
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| Autore: |
Parrish Susan Scott
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| Titolo: |
American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-5678-9 |
| 1-4696-0095-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460610103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia