First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical­historical perspective. T

In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott