Sharp, Patrick B. (Author)
University of Oklahoma Press
Physical Details: xiii + 270 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description A study of the conflict between civilization and savagery in American culture, manifest in the American response to Darwinian ideas concerning race in the 19th century and again in the nuclear age.
Review Cravens, Hamilton (2008) Review of "Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 643).
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