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

by Randall Fuller

An examination of how Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species influenced American intellectuals in 1860, reshaping debates around slavery, science, and religion on the eve of the Civil War.

Accession 11941 ISBN 9780525428336 Publisher Viking
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