Activist Biology
The Higher Voice of Biology is the story of a group of biologists at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro who joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. It offers a portrait of science as a creative and transformative pathway. This book will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history and Latin American political and social life in the 1920s and 1930s--
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The Higher Voice of Biology is the story of a group of biologists at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro who joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. It offers a portrait of science as a creative and transformative pathway. This book will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history and Latin American political and social life in the 1920s and 1930s--
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- Publication Date:2016.
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- Publisher(s):University of Arizona Press
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
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- Description:1 online resource (265)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0816534616, 9780816534616
- oclc:ocn958455659
- LC Classification:QH305.2.B6
- Dewey Decimal:578.1
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Activist biology -- Chapter 2. A miniature of the fatherland -- Chapter 3. The making of a biologist -- Conclusion -- Timeline of Brazilian history (1889-1945).
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