Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and GenderThis 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. The contributions to this volume collectively illustrate the importance of local social, physical, and religious arrangements, while revealing 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Science region and religion the reception of Darwinism in Princeton Belfast and Edinburgh | 7 |
Darwin down under science religion and evolution in Australia | 39 |
Darwinism in New Zealand 18591900 | 61 |
Environment culture and the reception of Darwin in Canada 18591909 | 91 |
Darwinism in the American South | 123 |
Darwinism American Protestant thinkers and the puzzle of motivation | 145 |
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| Title | Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender |
| Editors | Ronald L. Numbers, John Stenhouse |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0521620716, 9780521620710 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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