Banquet at Delmonico's, great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America, Barry Werth
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- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Human evolution + Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Social Darwinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Dinners and dining -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
- Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
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Banquet at Delmonico's, great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America, Barry Werth
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-325) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Banquet at Delmonico's
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
226037314
Responsibility statement
Barry Werth
Sub title
great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America
Summary
Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. Prominent among these men were the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz
Table of contents
New York, November 8, 1882 -- Cambridge, 1871 -- New Haven, 1872 -- New York, 1873 -- New Haven, 1874 -- Brooklyn, 1875 -- Washington, 1876 -- Baltimore, 1877 -- Brooklyn, 1878 -- French Riviera, 1879 -- Washington, 1880 -- New York, 1881 -- New York, 1882
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