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Trying Biology

The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools [Paperback]

by Adam R. Shapiro

    • Author

      Adam R. Shapiro

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      The University of Chicago Press

    • Published

      March 2015

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      Convincingly dispelling the conventional view of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial as simply a conflict between science and religion, Adam R Shapiro places the trial in its broader context - a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing, education reform in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country - 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.

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      • Author

        Adam R. Shapiro

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        The University of Chicago Press

      • Published

        March 2015

      • Weight

        300g

      • Page Count

        200

      • Dimensions

        152 x 230 x 12 mm

      • ISBN

        9780226273440

      • ISBN-10

        022627344X

      • Eden Code

        4319945

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      • Author/Creator: Adam R. Shapiro

      • ISBN: 9780226273440

      • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

      • Release Date: March 2015

      • Weight: 300g

      • Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 12 mm

      • Eden Code: 4319945


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