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The promise of progress : the life and work of Lewis Henry Morgan / Daniel Noah Moses.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 332 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826266606
  • 0826266606
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Promise of progress.DDC classification:
  • 301.092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • GN21.M8 M67 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.

"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.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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