Joseph LeConte, gentle prophet of evolution / Lester D. Stephens

Author: Stephens, Lester D.
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1982]
Copyright Date: ©1982
Physical Description: xix, 340 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

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Series

Southern biography series

Contents

As the twig is bent: the early years -- A winding route to medical practice, 1844-1850 -- "Abstract science": with Agassiz and Back to Georgia -- Before the storm burst: South Carolina Years, 1857-1861 -- The dreadful ordeal of war -- Picking up the pieces: the reconstruction years -- Commencing "a new life" in California, 1869-1875 -- In the study and in the field: physiologist and geologist -- The roads to religion and evolutionism converge -- 'Woe is me, if i preach not the gospel" -- A widening reputation, 1885-1894 -- Evolutionism and a "science of society" -- In their proper place: the "race problem" and the 'woman question" -- "The marks of his greatness": honored years, 1894-1898 -- Spokesman for the contractionalist theory -- "Among the monuments of the centuries": final years.

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ISBN

0807109959

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography Note

Bibliography: pages 303-332.

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