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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... interest and moral support . They include Bob Bannister , Tony Barnett , John Halliday and Ann Wallin . I would also propose a vote of thanks to friends in the History Department of the University of Queensland , my extended family so ...
... interest and moral support . They include Bob Bannister , Tony Barnett , John Halliday and Ann Wallin . I would also propose a vote of thanks to friends in the History Department of the University of Queensland , my extended family so ...
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... interest in the social and political ramifications of Darwin's paradigm , and much polemic . The historiography of ' Social Darwinism ' is now a rich field , and much has been said on the connection between biological science - or ...
... interest in the social and political ramifications of Darwin's paradigm , and much polemic . The historiography of ' Social Darwinism ' is now a rich field , and much has been said on the connection between biological science - or ...
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... interest . These could be embraced more readily by those with sensitive consciences . A word about scope and limits . This study will deal not only with Darwinism , but with a range of biological speculations that include Lamarckism , a ...
... interest . These could be embraced more readily by those with sensitive consciences . A word about scope and limits . This study will deal not only with Darwinism , but with a range of biological speculations that include Lamarckism , a ...
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... interest in the biological dimensions of war may possibly be explained in Foucault's terms of empowerment . Geneticists , biometricians and physiologists may have been motivated by ambitions , conscious or unconscious , to establish ...
... interest in the biological dimensions of war may possibly be explained in Foucault's terms of empowerment . Geneticists , biometricians and physiologists may have been motivated by ambitions , conscious or unconscious , to establish ...
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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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