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Author:
Conlin, Jonathan, author.
Title:
Evolution and the Victorians : science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain / Jonathan Conlin.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subject:
Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--Influence.
Evolution (Biology)--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Science--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Natural theology.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : 'I think' -- Natural theology -- Comparative anatomy -- Writing The origin -- Reading The origin -- 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 -- Conclusion : The longest discovery.
ISBN:
9781441136091 (hardback)
1441136096 (hardback)
9781441130907 (paperback)
144113090X (paperback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)830369501
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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