Biologists and the Promise of American Life : : From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey / / Philip J. Pauly.
Explorers, evolutionists, eugenicists, sexologists, and high school biology teachers--all have contributed to the prominence of the biological sciences in American life. In this book, Philip Pauly weaves their stories together into a fascinating history of biology in America over the last two hundre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Toward a Cultural History of American Biology
- PART I. NATURALISTS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER ONE. Natural History and Manifest Destiny, 1800-1865
- CHAPTER TWO. Culturing Fish, Culturing People: Federal Naturalists in the Gilded Age, 1865-1893
- CHAPTER THREE. Conflicting Visions of American Ecological Independence
- PART II. SPECIALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION
- PROLOGUE: Whitman's American Biology
- CHAPTER FOUR. Life Science Initiatives in the Late Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER FIVE. Academic Biology: Searching for Order in Life
- CHAPTER SIX. A Place of Their Own: The Significance of Woods Hole
- PART III. THE AGE OF BIOLOGY
- PROLOGUE. A View from the Heights
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Development of High School Biology
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Big Questions
- CHAPTER NINE. Good Breeding in Modern America
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX