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Trying biology : the Scopes trial, textbooks, and the antievolution movement in American schools
- Author
- Shapiro, Adam R.
- Title
- Trying biology : the Scopes trial, textbooks, and the antievolution movement in American schools / Adam R. Shapiro.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ©2013
- Description
- 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-188) and index.
- Contents
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- Beyond science and religion : the Scopes trial in historical context
- The textbook trust and state adoption
- Textbooks and their makers : authors, editors, salesmen, and readers
- Civic biology and the origin of the antievolution movement
- How Scopes was framed
- The evolution of the New civic biology
- Biology textbooks in an era of science and religion
- Losing the word : measuring the impact of Scopes.
- Subject headings
- Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc. Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching--United States--History. Biology--United States--Textbooks--History. Biology publishing--United States--History. Religion and science--United States--History.
- ISBN
- 9780226029450 (cloth : alk. paper) 022602945X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226029597 (e-book)