Disseminating Darwinism: the role of place, race, religion, and gender
This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although studies of Darwin and Darwinism have increased dramatica...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1999
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| In: | Year: 1999 |
| Further subjects: | B
Race Relations
B Social Darwinism History B Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) Influence B Darwin, Charles ; 1809-1882 ; Influence B Social Darwinism ; History B Sex role B Human Geography B Social Darwinism ; Religious aspects B Human Evolution B Social Darwinism Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although studies of Darwin and Darwinism have increased dramatically in the past few decades, knowledge of how various groups and regions responded to Darwinism remains unknown. The contributions to this volume collectively illustrate the importance of local social, physical, and religious arrangements, while showing that neither distance from Darwin's home at Down nor size of community greatly influenced how various regions responded to Darwinism. Essays spanning the world from Great Britain and North America to Australia and New Zealand explore the various meanings for Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference it made in the debates over evolution Science, region, and religion: the reception of Darwinism in Princeton, Belfast, and Edinburgh / David N. Livingstone -- Darwin down under: science, religion, and evolution in Australia / Barry W. Butcher -- Darwinism in New Zealand, 1859-1900 / John Stenhouse -- Environment, culture, and the reception of Darwin in Canada, 1859-1909 / Suzanne Zeller -- Darwinism in the American South / Ronald L. Numbers and Lester D. Stephens -- Darwinism, American Protestant thinkers, and the puzzle of motivation / Jon H. Roberts -- Exposing Darwin's "hidden agenda": Roman Catholic responses to evolution, 1875-1925 / R. Scott Appleby -- American Jewish responses to Darwin and evolutionary theory, 1860-1890 / Marc Swetlitz -- Black responses to Darwinism, 1859-1915 / Eric D. Anderson -- "The irrepressible woman question": women's responses to evolutionary ideology / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Mark R. Jorgensen |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511572964 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511572968 |