American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world

American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world /

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Main Author: Parrish, Susan Scott
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Natural history > United States > History.
Science > Social aspects > United States > History.
Intercultural communication > United States > History.
Imperialism > History.
Natural history.
Science > Social aspects.
Science.
Intercultural communication.
Ethnic relations.
Intellectual life.
British colonies.
Imperialism.
Relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Intellectual life.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Great Britain > Colonies > America.
United States > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > United States.
America.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
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Table of 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.

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