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Seafaring Scientist

Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology

By: Lester D. Stephens,Dale R. Calder

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Seafaring Scientist

Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology

By: Lester D. Stephens,Dale R. Calder

Infused with a sense of adventure and zeal for discovery, Seafaring Scientist recounts the achievements of a giant in the field of marine biology. Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (18681922), a Harvard-trained marine biologist and close associate of Alexander Agassiz, founded and directed on behalf of the Carnegie Institution the first tropical marine biological laboratory in the Western hemisphere. Located on Loggerhead Key in the Gulf of Mexico, the Tortugas Laboratory attracted some of America's most brilliant scientists. Mayor himself achieved international prominence in the field of biology for his authoritative work on jellyfishes and coral reefs.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003642X

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9781570036422

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

By: Lester D. Stephens

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Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

By: Lester D. Stephens

In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an excellent museum of natural history. Examining the scientific activities and contributions of John Bachman, Edmund Ravenel, John Edwards Holbrook, Lewis R. Gibbes, Francis S. Holmes, and John McCrady, Lester Stephens uncovers the important achievements of Charleston's circle of naturalists in a region that has conventionally been dismissed as largely devoid of scientific interests. Stephens devotes particular attention to the special problems faced by the Charleston naturalists and to the ways in which their religious and racial beliefs interacted with and shaped their scientific pursuits. In the end, he shows, cultural commitments proved stronger than scientific principles. When the South seceded from the Union in 1861, the members of the Charleston circle placed regional patriotism above science and union and supported the Confederate cause. The ensuing war had a devastating impact on the Charleston naturalists--and on science in the South. The Charleston circle never fully recovered from the blow, and a century would elapse before the South took an equal role in the pursuit of mainstream scientific research.

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358

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861197

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9780807861196

The Banana Wars

United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934

By: Lester D. Langley

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The Banana Wars

United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934

By: Lester D. Langley

The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction, placing the scholarship in current historical context. From the perspective of the Americans involved, the empire carved out by the banana warriors was a domain of bickering Latin American politicians, warring tropical countries, and lawless societies that the American military had been dispatched to police and tutor. Beginning with the Cuban experience, Langley examines the motives and consequences of two military occupations and the impact of those interventions on a professedly antimilitaristic American government and on its colonial agents in the Caribbean, the American military. The result of the Cuban experience, Langley argues, was reinforcement of the view that the American people did not readily accept prolonged military occupation of Caribbean countries. In Nicaragua and Mexico, from 1909 to 1915, where economic and diplomatic pressures failed to bring the results desired in Washington, the American military became the political arbiters; in Hispaniola, bluejackets and marines took on the task of civilizing the tropics. In the late 1920s, with an imperial force largely of marines, the American military waged its last banana war in Nicaragua against a guerrilla leader named Augusto C. Sandino. Langley not only narrates the history of America's tropical empire, but fleshes out the personalities of this imperial era, including Leonard Wood and Fred Funston, U.S. Army, who left their mark on Cuba and Vera Cruz; William F. Fullam and William Banks Caperton, U.S. Navy, who carried out their missions imbued with old-school beliefs about their role as policemen in disorderly places; Smedley Butler and L.W.T. Waller, Sr., U.S.M.C., who left the most lasting imprint of A

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842050477

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9780842050470

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

By: Lester D. Stephens

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John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895

By: Lester D. Stephens

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Seafaring Scientist

Seafaring Scientist

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

The Banana Wars

The Banana Wars

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

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