Lincoln & Darwin [electronic resource] : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.Description: xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : illOther title:
  • Lincoln and Darwin
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.7092 22
LOC classification:
  • E457.2 .L226 2010eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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