| Description |
xvi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-301). |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a cultural history of American biology -- PART I: NATURALISTS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Natural history and manifest destiny, 1800-1865 -- Culturing fish, culturing people: Federal naturalists in the Gilded Age, 1865-1893 -- Conflicting visions of American ecological independence -- PART II: SPECIALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION: Prologue: Whitman's American biology -- Life science initiatives in the late Nineteenth Century -- Academic biology: searching for order in life -- A place of their own: the significance of Woods Hole -- PART III: THE AGE OF BIOLOGY: Prologue: A view from the heights -- The development of high school biology -- Big questions -- Good breeding in modern America -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Biology -- United States -- History.
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Biology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| ISBN |
0691049777 cl alkaline paper |
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