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9780801898136 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Mixing Races

  • From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
  • This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801898136 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2011
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  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
9780801863905 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Finding Order in Nature

  • The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson
  • Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life--evolution--and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801863905 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2000
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9780801855375 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Discovering Birds

  • The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850
  • Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into individual sciences (botany, geology, and zoology) and ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801855375 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 13/02/1997
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