Prospero's America

John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676

Walter W. Woodward (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2013 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0087-1 (ISBN)

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In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonisation's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Woodward demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. Prospero's America reconceptualises the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand-in-hand with Puritanism and politics.

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Walter W. Woodward is Connecticut state historian and assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Reihe/Serie	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 231 mm
Gewicht	489 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
ISBN-10	1-4696-0087-0 / 1469600870
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-0087-1 / 9781469600871
Zustand	Neuware