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1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Note |
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
Examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. The author uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Natural history -- United States -- History.
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Natural history. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Intercultural communication -- United States -- History.
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Intercultural communication. |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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United States -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
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Colonies. |
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America. |
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Imperialism -- History.
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Imperialism. |
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United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Relations. |
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Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Parrish, Susan Scott. American curiosity 9780807830093 (DLC) 2005022337 (OCoLC)61362668 |
ISBN |
9781469600956 (electronic book) |
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1469600951 (electronic book) |
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9780807830093 |
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0807830097 |
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9780807856789 |
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0807856789 |
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