American Curiosity Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World

0807856789. This book is in good condition; no remainder marks. The book has some shelfwear and some slight waviness. Some margin notes. Solid study or reading copy but not fo [more]

0807856789. This book is in good condition; no remainder marks. The book has some shelfwear and some slight waviness. Some margin notes. Solid study or reading copy but not for collectors.; 9.20 X 6.10 X 0.90 inches; 344 pages.[less]

This is a study of how various peoples in colonial America understood and represented the natural world around them from the late 16th through the 18th century; it shows how [more]

This is a study of how various peoples in colonial America understood and represented the natural world around them from the late 16th through the 18th century; it shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from Britain, emerged from an exchange of information across the Atlantic; it uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world (cream-colored pictorial cover, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)[less]