American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

Editorial Reviews
Bloomsbury Review, May-June, 2006
"Brilliant chapters. . . . Wide-ranging research. . . . American Curiosity is a significant contribution to prerevolutionary social and intellectual history." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
"This groundbreaking book finally puts natural history where it belongs--at the center of eighteenth-century American cultural history."
Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
"This elegant, indeed sparkling, book examines how the New World cultivated science, not just sugar or tobacco, and exported it to Europe."
Richard Drayton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
"A signal contribution to the cultural dimension of Western expansion and the foundation of the Atlantic economy."
Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia),Susan Scott Parrish,The University of North Carolina Press,0807856789,Expeditions & Discoveries,History,History - General History,History - U.S.,History: American,Intercultural communication,Natural history,Science,Social aspects,United States,United States - Colonial Period,History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775),natural history; Atlantic world; transatlantic; British America; history of science; London; American Indians; natives; enslaved Africans; Caribbean

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