Fundamentalism and education in the Scopes era : God, Darwin, and the roots of America's culture wars /
The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain cultural control of education. As this book reveals for the first time, the successes and the failures of these fundamentalist campaigns...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain cultural control of education. As this book reveals for the first time, the successes and the failures of these fundamentalist campaigns transformed both the fundamentalist movement and the nature of education in America. In turn, those transformations determined many of the positions of the "culture wars" that raged throughout the twentieth century. --from publisher description |
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| Physical Description: | 258 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230623729 (hbk.) 0230623727 (hbk.) |