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

By: Lander, JamesContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010Description: xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : illISBN: 0809385864 (electronic bk.); 9780809385867 (electronic bk.)Other title: Lincoln and DarwinSubject(s): 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 -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7092 LOC classification: E457.2 | .L226 2010Online resources: Click to View
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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