Darwinism, War and History: The Debate Over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World WarThis 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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... causes and effects of war between the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and World War I. It reconstructs the theories of war and human pugnacity of thinkers such as Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Walter Bagehot ...
... causes and effects of war between the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 and World War I. It reconstructs the theories of war and human pugnacity of thinkers such as Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Walter Bagehot ...
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... Causes . 6. War - Psychological aspects - History . 7. Peace - Psychological aspects - History . I. Title . BF575.A3C76 1994 303.6'6 - dc20 93-11156 CIP ISBN 0 521 44465 9 hardback ISBN 0 521 46645 8 paperback Transferred to digital ...
... Causes . 6. War - Psychological aspects - History . 7. Peace - Psychological aspects - History . I. Title . BF575.A3C76 1994 303.6'6 - dc20 93-11156 CIP ISBN 0 521 44465 9 hardback ISBN 0 521 46645 8 paperback Transferred to digital ...
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... causing the war . Perhaps for these reasons , an imaginative version or mythology of Darwinism as bellicose has been ... causes and effects of war - that took place between 1859 and 1919 , with especial attention to the legacy of ...
... causing the war . Perhaps for these reasons , an imaginative version or mythology of Darwinism as bellicose has been ... causes and effects of war - that took place between 1859 and 1919 , with especial attention to the legacy of ...
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... causes . A sub - genre of ' anti - war evolutionism ' employed specifically evolutionary , and especially Dar- winian , discourse to counter the war school's use of struggle - based analogies from nature . Peace biology expounded an ...
... causes . A sub - genre of ' anti - war evolutionism ' employed specifically evolutionary , and especially Dar- winian , discourse to counter the war school's use of struggle - based analogies from nature . Peace biology expounded an ...
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... causes of World War I ? To elucidate such issues would require an entirely new research programme . Massive research would be needed into official archives and the private papers of participants and political decision - makers . I offer ...
... causes of World War I ? To elucidate such issues would require an entirely new research programme . Massive research would be needed into official archives and the private papers of participants and political decision - makers . I offer ...
Contents
The Darwinian legacy | 6 |
The age of Spencer and Huxley | 29 |
Crisis in the west the prewar generation and the new biology | 63 |
The natural decline of warfare antiwar evolutionism prior to 1914 | 98 |
The First World War man the fighting animal | 130 |
The survival of peace biology | 153 |
Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends | 176 |
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