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100 1 $aParrish, Susan Scott.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005059787
245 10 $aAmerican curiosity :$bcultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world /$cSusan Scott Parrish.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axvi, 321 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $a"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aNatural history$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aIntercultural communication$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104311
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100111
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100247
710 2 $aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96121593
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005022337.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005022337-d.html
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