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

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Autor principal: Lander, James
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.