UID:
almafu_9959237070202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (342 p.)
ISBN:
979-88-908792-1-9
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0-8078-5678-9
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1-4696-0095-1
Serie:
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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The British metropolis and its "America," 1584-1763. A strange overplus ; Nature's admirable regularity ; London's curious -- English bodies in America. The English humoral body ; Contagious climates ; The English body saved ; Uncouth symptoms -- Atlantic correspondence networks and the curious male colonial. Mutual commerce ; Not one rational eye ; The empirical advantage ; Becoming an F.R.S. ; Us Americans -- The nature of candid friendship. Familiar letters ; The honest friend versus the fop ; Curious love ; Gifts -- Lavinia's nature. Fatal curiosity ; A peculiar grace in the fair sex ; Specimens by every shipping ; Finding signs of the pastoral -- Indian sagacity. The most secret things of nature ; Dear and deadly grapes ; Contested mediation ; No people have better eyes ; A wonderful antidote -- African magi, slave poisoners. Topographies of slave knowledge ; Cunning ; Hiding places ; Collectors ; Poisoners ; Healers ; Obscene birds ; Forest trial, forest refuge.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-3889-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-3009-7
Sprache:
Englisch
