Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Numbers, Ronald L.
2. Stenhouse, John.

Description

1. xi, 300 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Social Darwinism > History
2. Social Darwinism > Religious aspects
3. Human evolution
4. Human geography
5. Sex role
6. Race relations

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 01-13150

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Disseminating Darwinism : the role of place, race, religion, and gender / edited by Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse.

Imprint

1. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Numbers, Ronald L.
2. Stenhouse, John.

LCCN

1. 98032167

ISBN

1. 0521620716 (hbk)

Research call number

1. JFE 01-13150