Books written by Susan Scott Parrish
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
... An Anxious Pursuit; Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1993); Richard Price and Sally Price, eds., Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society: An Abridged, ...
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The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History
To Philip Weinstein's point in “'Make It New': Faulkner and Modernism,” in A Companion to William Faulknered. Richard C. Moreland (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), that Faulkner's “gifts” as a modernist pointed him not to contemporaneous ...
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The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History
... social justice, and democracy” (Culture of Calamity, 106). All of these civic goods can be deployed through media meant to entertain. 4. H. G. Wells, The War That Would End War, qtd. in David Welch, “War Aims and the 'Big ...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment
Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists, this book offers ...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment
With the extinction of the game, “subsistence ... may become so precarious as to need and embrace the assistance” of the United States.21 With the game animals' extinction, the ecology of indigenous life would change.
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History of Science: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, ...
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Environment and the Natural World: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, ...
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
Parrish finds that Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe.