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

Informationen zum Autor Joyce E. Chaplin is Professor of History at Harvard University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgment Prologue: Noses! or the Tip of the Problem PART I: Approaching America! 1500-1585 1. Transatlantic Background 2. Technology versus Idolatry? PART II: Invading America! 1585-1660 3. No Magic Bullets: Archery! Ethnography! and Military Intelligence 4. Domesticating America 5. Death and the Birth of Race PART III: Conquering America! 1640-1676 6. How Improvement Trumped Hybridity 7. Gender and the Artificial Indian Body 8. Matter and Manitou Coda Notes Index

List of contents

Contents List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Prologue: Noses, or The Tip of the Problem I Approaching America, 1500-1585 1 Transatlantic Background 2 Technology versus Idolatry? II Invading America, 1585-1660 3 No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence 4 Domesticating America 5 Death and the Birth of Race III Conquering America, 1640-1676 6 How Improvement Trumped Hybridity 7 Gender and the Artificial Indian Body 8 Matter and Manitou Coda Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Joyce E Chaplin, Joyce E. Chaplin, Chaplin Joyce E.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2003
• EAN: 9780674011229
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01122-9
• No. of pages: 428
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, History, History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Social discrimination and equal treatment, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General