Darwinism, War and History Paperback: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War - Softcover

Crook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521466458 ISBN 13: 9780521466455

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind, and throws important new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.

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"Crook substantiates a sophisticated argument with exhaustive research covering every major writer and most of the minor figures who contributed to the debate....an extremely useful and nuanced examination of the extent to which writers on the relationship between war and human progress labored to make Darwin's work support their views." Journal of Military History

"In this valuable work, Paul Crook presents a comprehensive review of the debates over the biological causes and effects of war, stimulated by Darwinism, Mendelian genetics, and eugenics. ...a highly useful and informative work..." American Historical Review

"...a superb study in the biological semantics of human conflict. Here 'Darwinism' not only stands for 'one of the great scientific revolutions of modern times', but it is also seen as a theoretical legacy..." James Moore, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"The principal strength of Crook's book is the careful, comparative textual analysis that characterizes Crook's treatment of the ideas he examines....this is first rate, old fashioned, intellectual history, which means it is both readable and comprehensible....this is a book that adds so much to our understanding of the origins of controversial, modern sociobiological thought." Richard A. Soloway, Comptes rendus

Contraportada:

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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521466458
• ISBN 13: 9780521466455
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320