American curiosity :: cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world /

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 people in the colonies construed their own...

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1. Verfasser: Parrish, Susan Scott
Körperschaft: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Schriftenreihe:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Zusammenfassung: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 people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world.
Beschreibung:"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469600956
1469600951

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