Disseminating Darwinism

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


Zusammenfassung
This book focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism from about 1850 to 1915. Essays spanning the world explore the various meanings of Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference it made in the debates over evolution.

Inhalt
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, 185900 John Stenhouse; 4. Environment, culture, and the reception of Darwin in Canada, 185909 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, 187525 R. Scott Appleby; 8. American Jewish Responses to Darwin and Evolutionary theories, 186090 Marc Swetlitz; 9. Black responses to Darwinism, 185915 Eric D. Anderson; 10. 'The irrepressible woman question': women's responses to evolutionary ideology Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Mark R. Jorgensen.

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