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Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s Darwin (1991) won the James Tait Black Prize, the Comisso Prize for biography in Italy, the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society, and the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science. It was short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize and has been widely translated.
Adrian Desmond has written seven other books on evolution and Victorian science, including an acclaimed biography, Huxley. An Honorary Research Fellow in the biology department at University College London, he is editing (with Angela Darwin) The T. H. Huxley Family Correspondence.
James Moore’s books include The Post-Darwinian Controversies and The Darwin Legend. He has taught at Harvard, Notre Dame, and McMaster University, and is professor of the History of Science at the Open University. He is currently researching the life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Illustrations | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction: Unshackling Creation | p. xv |
The Intimate 'Blackamoor' | p. 1 |
Racial Numb-Skulls | p. 27 |
All Nations of One Blood | p. 49 |
Living in Slave Countries | p. 68 |
Common Descent: From the Father of Man to the Father of All Mammals | p. 111 |
Hybridizing Humans | p. 142 |
This Odious Deadly Subject | p. 172 |
Domestic Animals and Domestic Institutions | p. 199 |
Oh for Shame Agassiz! | p. 228 |
The Contamination of Negro Blood | p. 267 |
The Secret Science Drifts from Its Sacred Cause | p. 297 |
Cannibals and the Confederacy in London | p. 317 |
The Descent of the Races | p. 348 |
Notes | p. 377 |
Bibliography | p. 422 |
Index | p. 457 |
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