Book ID: CBB000100207

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001)

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Chaplin, Joyce E. (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xvi + 411 pp., illus., table, index
Language: English

Description Discusses how the attitudes of British travelers and settlers towards the Native American were shaped by the science of the time.


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Review Eden, Trudy A. (2002) Review of "Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 813). unapi

Review Basalla, George (2003) Review of "Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676". Social History of Medicine (p. 140). unapi

Review Mancall, Peter C. (2002) Review of "Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676". William and Mary Quarterly (p. 981). unapi

Review Turner, Steven (2004) Review of "Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 298). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Robinson, Martha K.
Heather Law Pezzarossi
Earle, Rebecca
Sheptak, Russell N.
Benkert, Davina
Cobb, Charles R.
Journals
Renaissance Quarterly
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Lychnos
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Early American Studies
Publishers
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yale University Press
University Press of Florida
University of New Mexico Press
Pickering & Chatto
Concepts
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Spain, colonies
Travel; exploration
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
People
Hakluyt, Richard
Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir
Dee, John
Bry, Theodor de
Acosta, José de
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Americas
Spain
North America
Europe
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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