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Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion /
Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries. Though shaped by vastly different environments, they had remarkably similar values, purposes, and approaches. In this exciting new study, James Lander places these two iconic men side by side and reveals the p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.