Lincoln and Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.
- Lander, James.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Physical description
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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
Location Status History of MedicineBZP (Darwin)Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780809329908
- 0809329905
- 9780809385867
- 0809385864