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John Bachman: Selected Writings on Science, Race, and Religion
Contributor(s): Bachman, John (Author), Waddell, Gene (Editor)
ISBN: 0820338184     ISBN-13: 9780820338187
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $46.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals - Mammals
- Nature | Animals - Birds
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 599.097
LCCN: 2010052714
Series: Publications of the Southern Texts Society (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.55 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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John Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species.

Bachman was the leading authority on North American mammals. He was responsible for the descriptions of the 147 mammal species included in Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, a massive work produced in collaboration with John James Audubon. Bachman relied entirely on scientific evidence in his work and was exceptional among his fellow naturalists for studying the whole of natural history.

Bachman also relied on scientific evidence in his Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race. He showed that human beings constitute a single species that developed as varieties equivalent to the varieties of domesticated animals. In this work, perhaps his most significant accomplishment, Bachman stood nearly alone in challenging the polygenetic views of Louis Agassiz and others that white and black people descended from different progenitors.

Bachman was also an important figure in the establishment of Lutheranism in the Southeast. He wrote the first American monograph on the doctrines of Martin Luther and the history of the Reformation. Bachman served for fifty-six years as minister of St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and was one of the founders of Newberry College.


Contributor Bio(s): Shields, David S.: - DAVID S. SHIELDS is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. He edits the journal Early American Literature and also serves as general editor of the Publications of the Southern Texts Society series. Shields's books include Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750.Waddell, Gene: - GENE WADDELL is Special Collections Archivist Emeritus at the College of Charleston and former director of the South Carolina Historical Society. Waddell is the author of the two-volume Charleston Architecture, 1670-1860.