Lincoln and Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.

  • Lander, James.
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Darwin)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780809329908
  • 0809329905
  • 9780809385867
  • 0809385864