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

Contents of Works

  • 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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