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Author Lander, James.

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

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 351 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries. Though shaped by vastly different environments, they had remarkably similar values, purposes, and approaches. In this exciting new study, James Lander places these two iconic men side by side and reveals the parallel views they shared of man and God. While Lincoln is renowned for his oratorical prowess and for the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as many other accomplishments, his scientific and technological interests are not widely recognized; for example, many Americans do not know that Lincoln is the only U.S. president to obtain a patent. Darwin, on the other hand, is celebrated for his scientific achievements but not for his passionate commitment to the abolition of slavery, which in part drove his research in evolution. This fascinating biographical examination brings the mid-nineteenth-century discourse about race, science, and humanitarian sensibility to the forefront using the mutual interests and pursuits of these two historic figures.
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Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Philosophy.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Philosophy.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Religion.
Religion.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Philosophy.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Religion.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Philosophy -- Religion.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Philosophy -- Religion.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Naturalists.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Title Lincoln and Darwin
Other Form: Print version: Lander, James. Lincoln & Darwin. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010 9780809329908 (DLC) 2009041678 (OCoLC)456977452
ISBN 0809385864 (ebook)
9780809385867 (electronic book)
0809385864 (electronic book)
9780809329908
0809329905