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Evolution and the Victorians - Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Evolution and the Victorians - Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was
the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of
his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the
point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how
the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very
different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of
negotiation between imagination, faith and knowledge which began
long before 1859 and which continues to this day. Evolution and the
Victorians provides historians with a survey of the thinkers and
debates implicated in this process, from the late 18th century to
the First World War. It sets the history of science in its social
and cultural context. Incorporating text-boxes, illustrations and a
glossary of specialist terms, it provides students with the
background narrative and core concepts necessary to engage with
specialist historians such as Adrian Desmond, Bernard Lightman and
James Secord. Conlin skilfully synthesises material from a range of
sources to show the ways in which the discovery of evolution was a
collaborative enterprise pursued in all areas of Victorian society,
including many that do not at first appear "scientific".
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