Subject Matter: Technology the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. .(Book Review)

Joyce B. Chaplin. Subject Matter: Technology the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 411. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-00453-1.

Subject Matter is a sparkling, sophisticated study of immense importance. By examining attitudes about technology, science, and the body as they intersected with and informed a series of encounters between the English and Indians on the Anglo-American frontier from the late sixteenth century to the late seventeenth century, Chaplin has provided a dazzling kaleidoscopic account of ...

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