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Author Parrish, Susan Scott.

Title American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / Susan Scott Parrish.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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.
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Subject Natural history -- United States -- History.
Natural history.
United States.
History.
Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Science -- Social aspects.
Intercultural communication -- United States -- History.
Intercultural communication.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
United States -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
Colonies.
America.
Imperialism -- History.
Imperialism.
United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.
Relations.
Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Other Form: Print version: Parrish, Susan Scott. American curiosity 9780807830093 (DLC) 2005022337 (OCoLC)61362668
ISBN 9781469600956 (electronic book)
1469600951 (electronic book)
9780807830093
0807830097
9780807856789
0807856789