2006, ISBN: 9780807856789

Kartoniert, 342 Seiten, 234mm x 156mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. … Meer...

Kartoniert, 342 Seiten, 234mm x 156mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American 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. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, 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 natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.Susan Scott Parrish is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. Versandkostenfreie Lieferung Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, [PU: University of North Carolina Press]<

ISBN: 9780807856789

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how variou… Meer...

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American 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. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, 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 natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>U.S. History>U.S. History>U.S. History, Omohundro Institute and UNC Press Core >1 >T<

2006, ISBN: 0807856789

[EAN: 9780807856789], Neubuch, [PU: Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli], HISTORY UNITED STATES COLONIAL PERIOD (1600-1775), Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel … Meer...

[EAN: 9780807856789], Neubuch, [PU: Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli], HISTORY UNITED STATES COLONIAL PERIOD (1600-1775), Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. 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., Books<

2006, ISBN: 0807856789

Kartoniert / Broschiert Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, ca. 1600 bis ca. 1775 (Periode der europäischen Kolonisation und Besiedlung Nordamerikas), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Omohund… Meer...

Kartoniert / Broschiert Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, ca. 1600 bis ca. 1775 (Periode der europäischen Kolonisation und Besiedlung Nordamerikas), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Omohundro Institute and UNC Press]<