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Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America
- Title
- Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.
- Author
- Dugatkin, Lee Alan, 1962-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 166 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.
- Alternative Title
- Mister Jefferson and the giant moose
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: "A moose more precious than you can imagine" -- "Dictatorial powers of the botanical gentlemen of Europe" -- The count's degenerate America -- "Noxious vapors and corrupt juices" -- "Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting" -- "Geniuses which adorn the present age" -- Enter the moose -- Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants -- Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.
- Call Number
- JSE 12-449
- ISBN
- 9780226169149
- 0226169146
- LCCN
- 2009013816
- 40017233751
- OCLC
- 317923081
- Author
- Dugatkin, Lee Alan, 1962-
- Title
- Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40017233751
- Research Call Number
- JSE 12-449