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

Author
Parrish, Susan Scott
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
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English.
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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9781469600956 (electronic bk.)
1469600951 (electronic bk.)
9780807830093
0807830097
9780807856789
0807856789
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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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