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

Contributor(s): Numbers, Ronald L | Stenhouse, John
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xi, 300 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521620716 (hbk)Subject(s): Social Darwinism -- History | Social Darwinism -- Religious aspects | Human evolution | Human geography | Sex role | Race relationsDDC classification: 301/.09 LOC classification: HM106 | .D57 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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