Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism by Crook, Paul

Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820481388)

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Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism by Crook, Paul

Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism

$118.70
Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism by Crook, Paul

Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism

$118.70
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's evolutionary ideas have been of immense social and political significance, filtering into an amazing galaxy of ideologies and agendas. This book focuses upon Social Darwinism, analyzing the concept, exploring its social origins, showing how people metaphorically sat upon Darwin's coat-tails to further their own campaigns, justifying everything from capitalism to socialism, war to peace, race and empire to Nazi-style eugenics. These reflective essays showcase the author's many years of Darwinian research and cover the period from 1859 to World War II (mainly in the British arena). Darwin's Coat-Tails also sheds light on current challenges, from ethnic cleansing to genetic engineering.

Author: Paul Crook
ISBN-10: 0820481386
ISBN-13: 9780820481388
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2007
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 136
By Paul Crook
By Paul Crook
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The Author: Paul Crook has a Ph.D. in history from London University and a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Queensland, Australia, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has published widely on Darwinian themes, including Benjamin Kidd: Portrait of a Social Darwinist and Darwinism, War and History, among others.

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