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the Scopes trial, textbooks, and the antievolution movement in American schools
By Adam R. Shapiro
"Trying Biology" was published by University of Chicago Press in 2013 - Chicago, it has 193 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Trying Biology” Metadata:
- Title: Trying Biology
- Author: Adam R. Shapiro
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 193
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: 2013
- Publish Location: Chicago
- Library of Congress Classification: QH362.S53 2013QH362 .S53 2013QH362 .S53 2013eb
“Trying Biology” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Biology - Trials, litigation - Textbooks - Evolution (Biology) - Christianity - Religion and science - Study and teaching - Biology publishing - History - Scopes, john thomas, 1900-1970 - Biology, study and teaching - Publishers and publishing, united states - Evolution - Religion et sciences - Histoire - SCIENCE - Life Sciences - Evolutionstheorie - Kreationismus - Intelligent Design - Fundamentalismus
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 24 x x centimeters
- Pagination: 193 p.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25429823M - OL16806127W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 842929821 - 809911039
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2012042417
- ISBN-13: 9780226029450
- ISBN-10: 022602945X
- All ISBNs: 022602945X - 9780226029450
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"Trying Biology" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Beyond science and religion: the Scopes trial in historical context
- 2- The textbook trust and state adoption
- 3- Textbooks and their makers: authors, editors, salesmen, and readers
- 4- Civic biology and the origins of the antievolution movement
- 5- How Scopes was framed
- 6- The evolution of the new civic biology
- 7- Biology textbooks in an era of science and religion
- 8- Losing the word: measuring the impact of Scopes
"Trying Biology" Description:
The Open Library:
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing, education reform in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country. He places the trial in this broad context -- alongside American Protestant antievolution sentiment -- and in doing so sheds new light on the trial and the historical relationship of science and religion in America. For the first time we see how religious objections to evolution became a prevailing concern to the American textbook industry even before the Scopes trial began. Shapiro explores both the development of biology textbooks leading up to the trial and the ways in which the textbook industry created new books and presented them as "responses" to the trial. Today, the controversy continues over textbook warning labels, making Shapiro's study -- particularly as it plays out in one of America's most famous trials -- an original contribution to a timely discussion. - Publisher.
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