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Author Parrish, Susan Scott

Title American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / Susan Scott Parrish
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Notes "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Natural history -- United States -- History
Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Intercultural communication -- United States -- History
Imperialism -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
NATURE -- Essays.
NATURE -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
British colonies
Ethnic relations
Imperialism
Intellectual life
Intercultural communication
International relations
Natural history
Science -- Social aspects
Naturwissenschaften
Intellektueller
Außenpolitik
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
United States -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
Great Britain -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
United States -- Relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Relations -- United States
Subject America
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 9781469600956
1469600951