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American Curiosity
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for
settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In
American Curiosity , Susan Scott Parrish examines how
various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented
the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century
through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge
about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to
colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across
the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters,
Parrish 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. Although hierarchies of
gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence,
and race persisted within the natural history community, the
contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long
as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of
the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and
enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and
relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant
tradition of nature writing and representation in North America
well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity
also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by
looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive
American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
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The history and present state of Virginia
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American-most famously claiming \"\"I am an Indian-he provided English readers with the first thorough going account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative.Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
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