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

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Main Author: Lander, James
Language:English
Published: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
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.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xv, 351 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.