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03326aam a2200553 a 4500 001 39BA25DC463211E0940F38A76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110304010638 008 050812s2006 ncua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2005022337 020 $a 0807856789 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780807856789 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0807830097 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780807830093 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)61362668 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d IXA $d NBU $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d GEBAY $d OCLCQ $d IOK $d SILO 043 $a n------ $a e-uk--- $a n------ 050 00 $a QH21.U5 $b P37 2006 100 1 $a Parrish, Susan Scott. 245 1 $a American curiosity : $b cultures of natural history in the colonial British Atlantic world / $c Susan Scott Parrish. 260 $a Chapel Hill : $b University of North Carolina Press, $c c2006. 300 $a xvi, 321 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Natural history $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Science $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Intercultural communication $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Ethnic relations. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Colonies $z America. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Relations $z United States. 648 7 $a Geschichte $2 swd 650 07 $a Naturwissenschaften. $2 swd 650 07 $a Intellektueller. $2 swd 650 07 $a AuÃenpolitik. $2 swd 651 7 $a USA. $2 swd 651 7 $a GroÃbritannien. $2 swd 710 2 $a Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 856 42 $z Additional Information at Google Books $u http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780807830093 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005022337-d.html 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229045352.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20110304085325.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=39BA25DC463211E0940F38A76AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b IOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search