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Butterfly people : an American encounter with the beauty of the world 1st ed. by Leach, William, 1944-

Contents: “…Yankee butterfly people: William Henry Edwards and Samuel Scudder -- The German-American romantics: Herman Strecker and Augustus Radcliffe Grote -- Beating hearts -- Word power -- The life and death of butterflies -- In the wake of empire -- Butterflies at the fair -- Death of the butterfly people.…”

Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s

Contents: “…Layton -- Race-ism and the city : the young Du Bois and the role of place in social theory, 1893-1901 / Zane L. Miller -- The German-American science of racial nutrition, 1870-1920 ; The case of the manufactured morons : science and social policy in two eras, 1934-1966 / Hamilton Cravens -- Responding to the airplane : urban rivalry, metropolitan regionalism, and airport development in Dallas, 1927-1965 / Robert B. …”
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