Disseminating Darwinism

The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender
Herausgeber: Numbers, Ronald L.; Stenhouse, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the influences on the reception of Darwinism in the nineteenth- early twentieth-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521011051
• ISBN-10: 0521011051
• Artikelnr.: 22288218

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. Science
region
and religion: the reception of Darwinism in Princeton
Belfast
and Edinburgh David N. Livingstone; 2. Darwin Down Under: science
religion
and evolution in Australia Barry W. Butcher; 3. Darwinism in New Zealand
1859-1900 John Stenhouse; 4. Environment
culture
and the reception of Darwin in Canada
1859-1909 Suzanne Zeller; 5. Darwinism in the American South Ronald L. Numbers and Lester D. Stephens; 6. Darwinism
American Protestant thinkers
and the puzzle of motivation Jon H. Roberts; 7. Exposing Darwin's 'hidden agenda': Roman Catholic responses to evolution
1875-1925 R. Scott Appleby; 8. American Jewish Responses to Darwin and Evolutionary theories
1860-1890 Marc Swetlitz; 9. Black responses to Darwinism
1859-1915 Eric D. Anderson; 10. 'The irrepressible woman question': women's responses to evolutionary ideology Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Mark R. Jorgensen.