The Book That Changed America

How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

Hardcover, 304 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 2017 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-525-42833-6
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OCLC Number:
949142721

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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.

1 edition

Subjects

  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Influence
  • History

Places

  • United States