American Curiosity Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World

Name: American Curiosity Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780807856789

ISBN-10: 0807856789

ISBN-13: 9780807856789

Edition: 2006

Authors: Susan Scott Parrish, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Staff

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Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. InAmerican Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, scientific knowledge about America emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English




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