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Everyday nature : knowledge of the natural world in colonial New York
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Everyday nature : knowledge of the natural world in colonial New York / Sara S. Gronim.
ISBN
0813540240 (hardcover : alk.)
9780813540245 (hardcover : alk.)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
x, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 17, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-250) and index.
Contents
Introduction : nature and knowledge in a colonial Atlantic world
pt. 1. New York as a colonial outpost, 1650-1720
Landscape
Body and world
Anomalies
pt. 2. New York as a province of Britain, 1720-1775
Improvement
Refinement
Reason
Landscape reimagined
Conclusion: nature and knowledge in New York.
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