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260 a| Chapel Hill :b| University of North Carolina Press,;

300 a| xvi, 321 p. :b| ill. ;c| 25 cm.;

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

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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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American curiosity cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / Susan Scott Parrish.

Author/creator	Parrish, Susan Scott
Other author	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Description	xvi, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist)
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Natural history--United States. --History. Science--Social aspects. --United States. --History. Intercultural communication--United States. --History. Imperialism--History. United States--Ethnic relations. United States--Intellectual life. Great Britain--Intellectual life. Great Britain--Colonies. --America. United States--Relations. --Great Britain. Great Britain--Relations. --United States.

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.
General note	"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2005022337
ISBN	9780807830093 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807830097 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807856789 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807856789 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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