Activist Biology The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil

• Tác giả: Regina Horta DuarteRegina Horta Duarte
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 081653201X
• ISBN-10: 0816534616
• ISBN: 9780816532018 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN-13: 978-0816541706
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 578.0981 Natural history of organisms and related subjects
• Thông tin xuất bản: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (pages cm)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 195333
• Chủ đề: 1. Biology--History--20th century--Brazil

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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-- Provided by publisher.