American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8078-5678-9
1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460610103321 |
American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908792-1-9
0-8078-5678-9 1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797705403321 |
Parrish Susan Scott | ||
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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish |
Autore | Parrish Susan Scott |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 508/.0973 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Natural history - United States - History
Science - Social aspects - United States - History Intercultural communication - United States - History Imperialism - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908792-1-9
0-8078-5678-9 1-4696-0095-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815308103321 |
Parrish Susan Scott | ||
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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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An answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa to the petition and paper of certain heads and particulars thereunto relating and annexed [[electronic resource] ] : exhibited to the Honourable House of Commons by Sir Paul Painter, Ferdinando Gorges, Henry Batson, Benjamin Skutt, and Thomas Knights on the behalf of themselves and others concerned in His Majesties plantations in America |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London, : s.n.], 1667 |
Descrizione fisica | [2], 18 p |
Altri autori (Persone) | PainterPaul, Sir, <17th cent.> |
Soggetto topico | Slave trade - England |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996385229803316 |
[London, : s.n.], 1667 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Articles and orders, made and agreed upon the 9th day of July, 1747 [[electronic resource] ] : and in the three and twentieth year of the raign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. / / by the Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria, formerly called Buhama in America, and the adjacent islands to be observed and by all and singular adventurers, to planters and dwellers upon, and all resiants [sic] at the same islands |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [London, : s.n., 1647] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 broadside |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996394428103316 |
[London, : s.n., 1647] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Articles of peace between the Most Serene ... Charles II ... and several Indian kings and queens, &c [[electronic resource] ] : concluded the 29th day of May, 1677 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills ..., 1677 |
Descrizione fisica | 18 p |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996383546003316 |
London, : Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills ..., 1677 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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At the court at Whitehall, this 26th day of March 1686 [[electronic resource] ] : Present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... : Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people, called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized, and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America . |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb ..., 1686 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 sheet ([1] p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) | BridgemanWilliam, Esq. |
Soggetto topico | Indentured servants |
Soggetto genere / forma | Broadsides17th century.England |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996387839603316 |
London, : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb ..., 1686 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The British Atlantic empire before the American Revolution / / edited by Peter Marshall and Glyn Williams |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Totowa, N.J., : Cass, 1980 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
Disciplina |
970.03
973.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MarshallPeter <1926->
WilliamsGlyndwr |
Soggetto topico | Colonies - America |
ISBN |
1-135-78051-X
1-135-78052-8 1-280-14328-2 0-203-98919-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Preface; The Empire and the Provincial Elites; The Board of Trade and London-American Interest Groups in the Eighteenth Century; Warfare and Political Change in Mid-Eighteenth Century Massachusetts; British Government Spending and the North American Colonies 1740-1775; The Seven Years' War and the American Revolution: the Causal Relationship Reconsidered; Old Whigs, Old Tories and the American Revolution |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910348227603321 |
London ; ; Totowa, N.J., : Cass, 1980 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / edited by Stephen Foster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 970.02 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FosterStephen <1942-> |
Collana | Oxford history of the British empire |
Soggetto topico | Colonies - History |
ISBN |
0-19-251358-3
0-19-920612-0 0-19-166274-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume; 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview; 3. "Bound by Our Regal Office": Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism; 5. "Establishment" and "Dissent" in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World; 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765
7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1815; 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration; 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances; 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792259303321 |
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / / edited by Stephen Foster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 970.02 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FosterStephen <1942-> |
Collana | Oxford history of the British empire |
Soggetto topico | Colonies - History |
ISBN |
0-19-251358-3
0-19-920612-0 0-19-166274-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume; 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview; 3. "Bound by Our Regal Office": Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism; 5. "Establishment" and "Dissent" in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World; 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765
7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1815; 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration; 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances; 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807753203321 |
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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