Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.
2009
QH528 .D84 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.
Author
Dugatkin, Lee Alan, 1962-
ISBN
9780226169149 hardcover alkaline paper
0226169146 hardcover alkaline paper
0226169146 hardcover alkaline paper
Imprint
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
QH528 .D84 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
508.097/09033
Summary
Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.
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Table of Contents
"Dictatorial powers of the botanical gentlemen of Europe"
The count's degenerate America
"Noxious vapors and corrupt juices"
"Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting"
"Geniuses which adorn the present age"
Enter the moose
Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants
Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.
The count's degenerate America
"Noxious vapors and corrupt juices"
"Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting"
"Geniuses which adorn the present age"
Enter the moose
Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants
Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.