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Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
Adam R. Shapiro
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Description for Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
Paperback. Features the history of biology textbook publishing, education reforms in Tennessee, and progressive school reform across the country. This volume sheds light on the trial and the historical relationship of science and religion in America. It explores how the textbook industry created fresh books and presented them as "responses" to the trial. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JNU; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226273440
SKU
V9780226273440
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About Adam R. Shapiro
Adam R. Shapiro is a lecturer in intellectual and cultural history at Birkbeck, University of London.
Reviews for Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
"A masterful reevaluation of the infamous 'Monkey Trial' of 1925.... Engagingly written.... Beyond its important insights into how issues in the textbook industry and matters of curriculum policy shaped the Scopes trial, Trying Biology offers an oft-needed reminder of the need to interrogate critically the claims of historical actors." (History of Education Quarterly)