Paul Crook, D. P. Crook

Darwinism, War and History

The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines these issues, tracing the historical debate that raged over the biological causes and effects of war between the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and World War l. It reconstructs the theories of war and juman pugnacity of thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Walter Bagehot, Alfred Wallace, T. H. Huxley, Karl Pearson, Peter Kroptkin, Jacques Novicow, William McDougall, Peter Chalmers Mitchell and a host of now-forgotten naturalist, biometricians, geneticist, eugenists, physicians, psychologist, professionals and minor savant of the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521466455
• ISBN-10: 0521466458
• Artikelnr.: 21257735

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Darwinian legacy
2. The age of Spencer and Huxley
3. Crisis in the West: the pre-war generation and the new biology
4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914
5. The Great War: man the fighting animal
6. The survival of peace biology
7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends
8. Conclusion.