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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates, " over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.
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