Lincoln and Darwin
Subtitle: shared visions of race, science, and religion
By: James Lander.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780809329908; 9780809385867
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Philosophy; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Religion; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Philosophy; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Religion; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and education; title: Voyages and the experience of slavery; title: The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837; title: Religious reformation; title: Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49; title: Mortality, invention, and geology; title: Scientific racism; title: The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55; title: The politics of race; title: Campaigning, 1856-58; title: Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60; title: More debates and new reviews; title: Designers and inventors; title: Inventions for a long war; title: The Trent affair : a chemistry problem; title: Delegation and control; title: The rationality of colonization; title: Colonization and emancipation; title: Societies; title: Mill workers and freedmen; title: Testing hopes and hoaxes; title: Spiritual forces; title: Meeting Agassiz; title: The descent of man; title: An end to religion; title: The dream of equality.