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

Subject

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

Genre

• History
• Biography

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