The book that changed America how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation
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.
| Main Author: | Fuller, Randall, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Origins
- The Book from Across the Atlantic
- Gray's Botany
- Beetles, Birds, Theories
- Word of Mouth
- Making a Stir
- A Night at the Lyceum
- The Nick of Time
- Part II: Struggles
- Bones of Contention
- Agassiz
- The What-Is-It?
- A Spirited Conflict
- Into the Vortex
- Tree of Life
- A Jolt of Recognition
- Wildfires
- Part III: Adaptations
- Discord in Concord
- Moods
- Meditations in a Garden
- The Succession of Forest Trees
- Races of the Old World
- A Cold Shudder
- Part IV: Transformations
- At Down House
- The Ghost of John Brown
- In the Transcendental Graveyard.