Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion /
Lander, James.
Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / [electronic resource] : Lincoln and Darwin James Lander. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010. - xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
0809385864 (electronic bk.) 9780809385867 (electronic bk.)
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.
Electronic books.
E457.2 / .L226 2010
973.7092
Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / [electronic resource] : Lincoln and Darwin James Lander. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010. - xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
0809385864 (electronic bk.) 9780809385867 (electronic bk.)
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.
Electronic books.
E457.2 / .L226 2010
973.7092