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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.
Subjects: Attitudes, Colonies, Colonists, First contact with Europeans, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Human Body, Imperialism, Indians of North America, Race relations, Science, Social aspects of Imperialism, Social aspects of Science, Social aspects of Technology, Social aspects of the Human body, Technology, North america, history, Indians of north america, first contact with europeans, Human body, social aspects, Science, social aspects, Technology, social aspects, Great britain, colonies, america, North america, race relations, Science and civilization, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Social conditions, Social aspects, Civilization, English influences, Cultural Anthropology, Colonialism
Places: America, Great Britain, North America
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775