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

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

Susan Scott Parrish

University of North Carolina Press, c2006

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • 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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: cloth ISBN 9780807830093

内容説明

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In "American Curiosity", Susan Scott Parrish examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Parrish 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. Although social hierarchies persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from America. Thus Anglo-American non-elites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. "American Curiosity" enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780807856789

内容説明

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In ""American Curiosity"", Susan Scott Parrish examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Parrish 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. Although social hierarchies persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from America. Thus Anglo-American non-elites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. ""American Curiosity"" enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.

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