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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America.(Book review)

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

JAMES DELBOURGO

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006

367 pp.

James Delbourgo's incisive and superbly written new book joins a growing body of scholarship on the production of knowledge about nature in the eighteenth-century "Atlantic world." In recent years, important book-length studies by Ralph Bauer (The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literature, 2003), Londa Schiebinger (Plants and Empire, 2004), Richard Drayton (Nature's Government, 2000), and Susan Scott Parrish (American Curiosity, 2005)--to name only some prominent examples--have contributed much to ...

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