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Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN-13
- 9780674011229
- ISBN
- 9780674011229
- EAN
- 9780674011229
- Pays d'origine
- États-Unis
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674011228
ISBN-13
9780674011229
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2458162
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
428 Pages
Publication Name
Subject Matter : Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
In this wide-ranging and highly suggestive book, Joyce E. Chaplin, makes a stimulating contribution to scholarship on the origins of American ideas of racial difference. Subject Matter , compliments current work in several ways...Where most scholars, like Winthrop Jordan in his path-breaking White over Black , have focused mainly on Anglo-American ideas of African racial difference, here the author is primarily concerned with Anglo-American ideas of Amerindian difference...The significance of the book and the author's appointment cannot be underestimated. She has become the Perry Miller of academia's next generation,replacing his 'New England Mind' with her 'Anglo-American Body'...Like Mr. Miller's The New England Mind , Subject Matter is an impressively thought-provoking achievement destined to serve as a touchstone of debate for some time to come. The author's style is measured, her concerns moral, and her scholarship daring., This book does well what few books manage to accomplish even crudely--taking a historical context that at first seems familiar and showing new and interesting complications, contradictions, and still-pending questions. It also develops a number of subthemes in unexpected but convincing ways, providing a truly fresh perspective. Among the several strands that Chaplin artfully interweaves are race, weaponry, adaptation, the physical environment, the nature of science, English ideas about the human body, dissimilarities with the Spanish national character, and a host of other themes...[This book] provides rich rewards and fascinating serendipity., In this wide-ranging and highly suggestive book, Joyce E. Chaplin, makes a stimulating contribution to scholarship on the origins of American ideas of racial difference. Subject Matter, compliments current work in several ways...Where most scholars, like Winthrop Jordan in his path-breaking White over Black, have focused mainly on Anglo-American ideas of African racial difference, here the author is primarily concerned with Anglo-American ideas of Amerindian difference...The significance of the book and the author's appointment cannot be underestimated. She has become the Perry Miller of academia's next generation, replacing his 'New England Mind' with her 'Anglo-American Body'...Like Mr. Miller's The New England Mind, Subject Matter is an impressively thought-provoking achievement destined to serve as a touchstone of debate for some time to come. The author's style is measured, her concerns moral, and her scholarship daring., The range of sources that Chaplin employs is very impressive. Geographically, she ranges from the Arctic to South America. She is versed in the narratives of exploration, colonization, and European science. Subject Matter engages the material world and the cultural world and stresses complex and mutual influences. It is a cultural history, but the book is also much more. Read as an environmental history, the book is the most sophisticated demonstration of the centrality of gender to analysis of nature and the environment that I have yet seen. It is a book that I will be thinking about and recommending to others for quite some time., With this sweeping 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.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.1/7
Table Of Content
ContentsList of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Noses, or The Tip of the ProblemIApproaching America, 1500-15851Transatlantic Background2Technology versus Idolatry?IIInvading America, 1585-16603No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence4Domesticating America5Death and the Birth of RaceIIIConquering America, 1640-16766How Improvement Trumped Hybridity7Gender and the Artificial Indian Body8Matter and ManitouCodaNotesIndex
Synopsis
With this sweeping 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. In Chaplin's account of the earliest contacts, we find the English--impressed by the Indians' way with food, tools, and iron--inclined to consider Indians as partners in the conquest and control of nature. Only when it came to the Indians' bodies, so susceptible to disease, were the English confident in their superiority. Chaplin traces the way in which this tentative notion of racial inferiority hardened and expanded to include the Indians' once admirable mental and technical capacities. Here we see how the English, beginning from a sense of bodily superiority, moved little by little toward the idea of their mastery over nature, America, and the Indians--and how this progression is inextricably linked to the impetus and rationale for empire., 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.
LC Classification Number
E46
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