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American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / / Susan Scott Parrish
| 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
| 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
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| 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 | ||
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| 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
| 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 |
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Parrish Susan Scott
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| 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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John Burroughs and the place of nature [[electronic resource] /] / James Perrin Warren
| John Burroughs and the place of nature [[electronic resource] /] / James Perrin Warren |
| Autore | Warren James Perrin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 814/.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nature in literature
American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Natural history literature - United States - History Natural history - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-72607-2
9786612726071 0-8203-3081-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451702403321 |
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Warren James Perrin
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| Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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John Burroughs and the place of nature [[electronic resource] /] / James Perrin Warren
| John Burroughs and the place of nature [[electronic resource] /] / James Perrin Warren |
| Autore | Warren James Perrin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 814/.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nature in literature
American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Natural history literature - United States - History Natural history - United States - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-72607-2
9786612726071 0-8203-3081-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777819603321 |
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Warren James Perrin
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| Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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John Burroughs and the place of nature / / James Perrin Warren
| John Burroughs and the place of nature / / James Perrin Warren |
| Autore | Warren James Perrin |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 814/.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nature in literature
American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Natural history literature - United States - History Natural history - United States - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-72607-2
9786612726071 0-8203-3081-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813263903321 |
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Warren James Perrin
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| Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo
| Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo |
| Autore | Lannoo Michael J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.72092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmentalism - United States - History
Natural history - United States - History Ecology - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-76396-2
9786612763960 0-520-94606-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Out of the Midwest -- Chapter 2. From Forester to Professor -- Chapter 3. From Businessman to Sage -- Chapter 4. Game Management -- Chapter 5. Between Pacific Tides -- Chapter 6. The Shack -- Chapter 7. The Lab -- Chapter 8. A Sand County Almanac -- Chapter 9. Sea of Cortez -- Chapter 10. Daily Lives and Professional Expectations -- Chapter 11. From Natural History to Ecology -- Chapter 12. Leopold's Approach -- Chapter 13. Ricketts's Approach -- Chapter 14. Shared and Complementary Perspectives -- Chapter 15. Transcendence -- Chapter 16. Ethic and Engagement -- Chapter 17. Where Their Spirit Lives On -- The shack and the lab -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459113403321 |
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Lannoo Michael J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo
| Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo |
| Autore | Lannoo Michael J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.72092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmentalism - United States - History
Natural history - United States - History Ecology - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
aldo leopold biography climate change collapsing ecosystems conservation biology discussion books easy to read ecologists ecology ecosystems ed ricketts environmentalism famous scientists historical scientists history of environmentalism invasive species natural communities natural science natural world naturalism nonfiction related work retrospective science majors science scientists students and teachers |
| ISBN |
1-282-76396-2
9786612763960 0-520-94606-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Out of the Midwest -- Chapter 2. From Forester to Professor -- Chapter 3. From Businessman to Sage -- Chapter 4. Game Management -- Chapter 5. Between Pacific Tides -- Chapter 6. The Shack -- Chapter 7. The Lab -- Chapter 8. A Sand County Almanac -- Chapter 9. Sea of Cortez -- Chapter 10. Daily Lives and Professional Expectations -- Chapter 11. From Natural History to Ecology -- Chapter 12. Leopold's Approach -- Chapter 13. Ricketts's Approach -- Chapter 14. Shared and Complementary Perspectives -- Chapter 15. Transcendence -- Chapter 16. Ethic and Engagement -- Chapter 17. Where Their Spirit Lives On -- The shack and the lab -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784956103321 |
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Lannoo Michael J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo
| Leopold's shack and Ricketts's lab : the emergence of environmentalism / / Michael J. Lannoo |
| Autore | Lannoo Michael J |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.72092/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmentalism - United States - History
Natural history - United States - History Ecology - United States - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-76396-2
9786612763960 0-520-94606-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Out of the Midwest -- Chapter 2. From Forester to Professor -- Chapter 3. From Businessman to Sage -- Chapter 4. Game Management -- Chapter 5. Between Pacific Tides -- Chapter 6. The Shack -- Chapter 7. The Lab -- Chapter 8. A Sand County Almanac -- Chapter 9. Sea of Cortez -- Chapter 10. Daily Lives and Professional Expectations -- Chapter 11. From Natural History to Ecology -- Chapter 12. Leopold's Approach -- Chapter 13. Ricketts's Approach -- Chapter 14. Shared and Complementary Perspectives -- Chapter 15. Transcendence -- Chapter 16. Ethic and Engagement -- Chapter 17. Where Their Spirit Lives On -- The shack and the lab -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815224903321 |
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Lannoo Michael J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thoreau's sense of place [[electronic resource] ] : essays in American environmental writing / / edited by Richard J. Schneider; foreword by Lawrence Buell
| Thoreau's sense of place [[electronic resource] ] : essays in American environmental writing / / edited by Richard J. Schneider; foreword by Lawrence Buell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Disciplina |
818.309
818/.309 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SchneiderRichard J |
| Collana | The American land and life series |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental protection - United States - History
American literature - History and criticism Natural history - United States - History Environmental protection in literature Place (Philosophy) in literature Nature in literature Setting (Literature) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-58729-311-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lawrence Buell; Introduction; Believing in Nature Wilderness and Wildness in Thoreauvian Science laura dassow wa l l s; Thoreau's Transcendental Ecocentrism william r o s s i; ''Climate Does Thus React on Man'' Wildness and Geographic Determinism in Thoreau's ''Walking'' richard j . schneider; ''In Search of a More Human Nature'' Wendell Berry's Revision of Thoreau's Experiment ted olson; Water-Signs Place and Metaphor in Dillard and Thoreau james a . papa, j r .; The WrittenWorld Place and History in Thoreau's ''A Walk to Wachusett'' david m . robinson
Thoreau, Thomas Cole, and Asher Durand Composing the American Landscape i s a i a h smithsonReading Home Thoreau, Literature, and the Phenomenon of Inhabitation peter blakemore; Seeing the West Side of Any Mountain Thoreau and Contemporary Ecological Poetry j . scott bryson; TenWays of Seeing Landscapes in ""Walden"" and Beyond james g . mcgrath; Sauntering in the IndustrialWilderness bernard w. quetchenbach; ""Walden,"" ""Rural Hours,"" and the Dilemma of Representation rochelle johnson; Wordsworth and Thoreau Two Versions of Pastoral greg garrard Humanity as ''A Part and Parcel of Nature'' A Comparative Study of Thoreau's and Taoist Concepts of Nature aimin chengSpeaking for Nature Thoreau and the ''Problem'' of ''Nature Writing'' nancy craig simmons; Depopulation, Deforestation, and the ActualWalden Pond robert sattelmeyer; Skirting Lowell The ExceptionalWork of Nature inAWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers stephen germic; Rustling Thoreau's Cattle Wildness and Domesticity in ''Walking'' barbara "barney" nelson; Counter Frictions Writing and Activism in the Work of Abbey and Thoreau susan m . lucas; contributors; works cited index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456112403321 |
| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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