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The promise of progress : the life and work of Lewis Henry Morgan / Daniel Noah Moses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Daniel Noah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Social evolution.
- Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881.
- Morgan, Lewis Henry.
- Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A detailed presentation of Lewis Henry Morgan's life from his early work with the Iroquois to his defense of American capitalism to his strange posthumous career among international leftists up to Morgan's influence among today's environmentalists, anarchists, feminists, and other social visionaries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface: Huckleberry Finn's Dilemma
- Introduction
- Part I: Civilization Observed
- Chapter One: A New World
- Chapter Two: Warrior
- Chapter Three: Scholar
- Part II: Civilization Explained
- Chapter Four: Respectable Family Man
- Chapter Five: Scholarly Adventures
- Chapter Six: ANCIENT SOCIETY and Modern Times
- Part III Civilization in Question
- Chapter Seven: After the Victorian Age
- Conclusion: Age of Aquarius
- Age of Apocalypse
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6660-6
- OCLC:
- 647875399
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