UID:
edoccha_9959704105702883
Format:
1 online resource (265 pages) :
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illustrations, photographs.
ISBN:
0-8165-3461-6
Series Statement:
Latin American landscapes
Content:
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--
Note:
Revised and expanded version of A biologia militante : o Museu Nacional, especialização científica, divulgação do conhecimento e práticas científicas no Brasil 1926-1945.
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8165-4170-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8165-3201-X
Language:
English
