Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676Harvard University Press, 1.07.2009 г. - 428 страници 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 of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire. |
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... physical prejudices, has made it seem that the English formed their beliefs only once—that is, well before they went to America. These scholars have not expli- cated responses to phenomena the English witnessed in America, es- pecially ...
... physical construction of the cosmos from earth to heavens, generation and corruption of living material, and animal (including human) life. Accretions to this Aristo- telian base included Arabic science, ancient corpuscular theory, Neo ...
... physical environment. Works like almanacs conveyed classical assumptions about nature without elaborate exegesis of their provenance or of disputes between interpretations. Popular conceptions of nature thus functioned as an educated ...
... physical nature of new territories, information about technology appropriate to the resources of new places, and assess- ments of the human bodies suited to these places. Such questions did not require occult knowledge about the ...
... physically possible to get profits from North America or plant English people there . Could English bodies be mingled with American nature in order to make property and profits ? Examination of the nat- ural world answered these ...
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II Invading America 15851660 | 77 |
III Conquering America 16401676 | 199 |
Coda | 321 |
Notes | 327 |
Index | 391 |