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Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion

Title
Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.
Author
Lander, James.
Publication
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.

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Description
xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Alternative Title
Lincoln and Darwin
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
IK 10-8278
ISBN
  • 9780809329908 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0809329905 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009041678
OCLC
YBP 2009041678
Author
Lander, James.
Title
Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.
Imprint
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
IK 10-8278
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