Book ID: CBB000741883

Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (2007)

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Sharp, Patrick B. (Author)


University of Oklahoma Press


Publication Date: 2007
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.


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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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Juárez-Barrera, Fabiola
Bueno-Hernández, A. Alfredo
Ciglioni, Laura
Bilgili, Alper
Nichols, Rachael L.
Bolar, Richard Allen
Concepts
Science and race
Darwinism
Science and culture
Evolution
Science and gender
Science and politics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Southern states (U.S.)
Scotland
South America
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