Subject matter
Subtitle: technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676
By: Joyce E. Chaplin.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- North America; Colonists -- North America -- Attitudes; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- North America -- History; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- North America -- History; Science -- Social aspects -- North America -- History; Technology -- Social aspects -- North America -- History; North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History; North America -- Race relations
Description: "With this 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-389) and index.