Banquet at Delmonico's : great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America

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Banquet at Delmonico's : great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America

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great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America

Statement of responsibility

Barry Werth

Creator

• Werth, Barry
• Werth, Barry
• Werth, Barry

Subject

• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
• Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
• Social Darwinism
• Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
• Dinners and dining
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Verenigde Staten
• Dinners and dining -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
• Manners and customs
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
• Biography
• History
• Social Darwinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
• Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Intellectual life
• Human evolution -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
• Social change
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
• Human evolution -- Social aspects
• Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century
• History, 19th Century -- United States
• Cultural Evolution -- United States
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence
• History, 19th Century -- United States
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
• Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.)
• Intellectuals
• Social Conditions -- United States
• Evolutietheorie
• Biological Evolution -- United States
• Cultural Evolution -- United States
• Social Darwinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• 1800 - 1918
• Human evolution -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• United States
• Filosofische aspecten
• New York (State) -- New York
• Social conditions
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Biological Evolution -- United States
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence
• Social Change -- United States
• Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Dinners and dining -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
• United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
• Social Change -- United States
• Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.)
• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
• Naturalisme (filosofie)
• Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• History

Language

eng

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

HM631

LC item number

.W47 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

HM 631

NLM item number

W499b 2009