Evolution and the Victorians : science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain / Jonathan Conlin.

  • Conlin, Jonathan
Date:
2014
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Also known as

Science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Physical description

xiii, 235 pages : illustration, facsimile, portraits ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The longest discovery, 1750-1870. Natural theology -- Comparative anatomy -- Writing The origin -- Reading The origin -- Lines of disent, 1850-1914. Christian evolution? : Charles Kingsley's 'natural theology of the future' -- Imperial evolution? : 'Greater Britons' and other races -- Progressive evolution? : Herbert Spencer, social science and 'social Darwinism' -- Domestic evolution? : making a home for science -- Sustainable evolution? : Alfred Russel Wallace and the wonderful century.

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    History of Medicine
    AOS.41.AA8
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ISBN

  • 144113090X
  • 9781441130907
  • 1441136096
  • 9781441136091