| Description |
xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Philosophy.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Religion.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Philosophy.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Religion.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Lincoln and Darwin |
| ISBN |
9780809329908 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0809329905 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0809385864 (electronic bk.) |
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9780809385867 (electronic bk.) |
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