Subject Matter / / Joyce E. CHAPLIN.
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 p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Noses, or The Tip of the Problem
- PART ONE. Approaching America, 1500-1585
- CHAPTER ONE. Transatlantic Background
- CHAPTER TWO. Technology versus Idolatry?
- PART TWO. Invading America, 1585-1660
- CHAPTER THREE. No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence
- CHAPTER FOUR. Domesticating America
- CHAPTER FIVE. Death and the Birth of Race
- PART THREE. Conquering America, 1640-1676
- CHAPTER SIX. How Improvement Trumped Hybridity
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Gender and the Artificial Indian Body
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Matter and Manitou
- Coda
- Notes
- Index