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The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation
Title
The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation / Randall Fuller.
ISBN
9780525428336
052542833X
Publication
New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Physical Description
x, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.
Other formats
Online version: Fuller, Randall, 1963- , author.. Book that changed America New York : Viking, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 01, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Origins
The Book from Across the Atlantic
Gray's Botany
Beetles, Birds, Theories
Word of Mouth
Making a Stir
A Night at the Lyceum
The Nick of Time
Part II: Struggles
Bones of Contention
Agassiz
The What-Is-It?
A Spirited Conflict
Into the Vortex
Tree of Life
A Jolt of Recognition
Wildfires
Part III: Adaptations
Discord in Concord
Moods
Meditations in a Garden
The Succession of Forest Trees
Races of the Old World
A Cold Shudder
Part IV: Transformations
At Down House
The Ghost of John Brown
In the Transcendental Graveyard.
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History.
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