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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose
    sub title: natural history in early America
  title info:
    title: Mister Jefferson and the giant moose
  name:
    name part: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.
  table of contents: Preface: "A moose more precious than you can imagine" -- "Dictatorial powers of the botanical gentlemen of Europe" -- The count's degenerate America -- "Noxious vapors and corrupt juices" -- "Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting" -- "Geniuses which adorn the present age" -- Enter the moose -- Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants -- Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.
  note: Lee Alan Dugatkin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n------
  subject:
    topic: Degeneration
    topic: Environmental aspects
    geographic: America
    topic: Historiography
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Human beings
    topic: Effect of environment on
    geographic: America
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Thomas
      name part: 1743-1826
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: comte de
      name part: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc
      name part: 1707-1788
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Thomas
      name part: 1743-1826
  subject:
    name:
      name part: comte de
      name part: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc
      name part: 1707-1788
  subject:
    topic: Natural History
    topic: history
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
    topic: history
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Biological Evolution
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: History, 18th Century
    geographic: United States
  classification: QH528 .D843 2009
  classification: B885.Z7
  classification: 508.097/09033
  classification: QH 528 D866m 2009
  identifier: 9780226169149 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226169146 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009013816
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 090401
    record change date: 20151113130759.0
    record identifier: in00002532331