Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676

by Joyce E. Chaplin

Book Overview

With this sweeping 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011228
• ISBN13: 9780674011229
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"