Subject Matter Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

Name: Subject Matter Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676
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ISBN: 9780674011229

ISBN-10: 0674011228

ISBN-13: 9780674011229

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joyce E. Chaplin

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This work alters the historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played.

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.94" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Noses, or The Tip of the Problem



Approaching America, 1500-1585



Transatlantic Background



Technology versus Idolatry?



Invading America, 1585-1660



No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence



Domesticating America



Death and the Birth of Race



Conquering America, 1640-1676



How Improvement Trumped Hybridity



Gender and the Artificial Indian Body



Matter and Manitou


Coda


Notes


Index