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The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation

text The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation

Summary

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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x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
Viking 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 576 FUL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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