American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World

by Susan Scott Parrish

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856789
• ISBN13: 9780807856789
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"