The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation / Randall Fuller.
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.
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Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
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Physical Description: | x, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Part I: Origins. 1. The book from across the Atlantic ; 2. Gray's Botany ; 3. Beetles, birds, theories ; 4. Word of mouth ; 5. Making a stir ; 6. A night at the Lyceum ; 7. The nick of time
- Part II: Struggles. 8. Bones of contention ; 9. Agassiz ; 10. The what-is-it? ; 11. A spirited conflict ; 12. Into the vortex ; 13. Tree of life ; 14. A jolt of recognition ; 15. Wildfires
- Part III: Adaptations. 16. Discord in Concord ; 17. Moods ; 18. Meditations in a garden ; 19. The succession of forest trees ; 20. Races of the Old World ; 21. A cold shudder
- Part IV: Transformations. 22. At Down House ; 23. The ghost of John Brown ; 24. In the transcendental graveyard.