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Barry WerthPublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM631 .W47 2009 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. In late 1882, most of the main figures who brought about and popularized these developments gathered at Delmonico?s, New York?s most venerable restaurant, in an exclusive farewell dinner to honor Spencer and to toast the social applications of the theory of evolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Spencer, Herbert, — 1820-1903 — Influence
- Delmonico’s Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) — History — 19th century
- Social Darwinism — United States — History — 19th century
- Human evolution — Social aspects — United States — History — 19th century
- Social change — United States — History — 19th century
- Dinners and dining — New York (State) — New York — History — 19th century
- Intellectuals — United States — Biography
- United States — Intellectual life — 19th century
- United States — Social conditions — 1865-1918
- United States — Social life and customs — 1865-1918
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- 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
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- 9781400067787
- 1400067782
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