Book/Printed Material Activist biology : the National Museum, politics, and nation building in Brazil

Title

• Activist biology : the National Museum, politics, and nation building in Brazil

Summary

• 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.

Names

• Duarte, Regina Horta, author
• Duarte, Regina Horta

Created / Published

• Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Contents

• Introduction -- Chapter 1. Activist biology -- Chapter 2. A miniature of the fatherland -- Chapter 3. The making of a biologist -- Conclusion -- Timeline of Brazilian history (1889-1945).

Headings

• -  Museu Nacional (Brazil)
• -  Biology--Brazil--History--20th century

Notes

• -  Revised and expanded version of A biologia militante : o Museu Nacional, especialização científica, divulgação do conhecimento e práticas científicas no Brasil 1926-1945.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237)and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xiv, 249 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• QH305.2.B6

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020719050

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020719050

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020719050

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