Publication

2001 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

102,750 words, Guess

Page Count

411 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL6789627M
  • ISBN-100674004531
  • OCLC Control Number45209082
  • Library of Congress Control Number00050028
  • LibraryThing283770
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  • Goodreads3972543

Classifications

  • DDC973.1/7
  • LCCE46 .C48 2001
  • LCCE46.C48 2001
and 1 more
  • LCCE 46 C48 2001

Description

"With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Subject matter: technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676Harvard University Press2001-01-01

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