Disseminating Darwinism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521620710)

This 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.

Author: Ronald L. Numbers
ISBN-10: 0521620716
ISBN-13: 9780521620710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/28/1999
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.02w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 03/01/2001 pg. 36