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Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War Paperback - 1994

by Paul Crook


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This book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of "peace biology," whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world prior to 1919, this study throws important new light on militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.

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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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  • Title Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War
  • Author Paul Crook
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1994-03-17
  • ISBN 9780521466455 / 0521466458
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.97 x 0.73 in (22.73 x 15.16 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Causes, Darwin, Charles - Influence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93011156
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.66
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