Social Darwinism in European and American thought, 1860-1945 : nature as model and nature as threat / Mike Hawkins.

Author: Hawkins, Mike, 1946-

Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 (1998 printing)

Descriptionx, 344 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Defining social Darwinism -- The distinctiveness of social Darwinism -- The emergence of social Darwinism -- Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution -- Social Darwinism in the USA -- Social Darwinism in France and Germany -- Reform Darwinism -- Races, nations and the struggle for existence -- The eugenic conscience -- Social Darwinism, nature and sexual difference -- Nazism, Fascism and social Darwinism -- Postscript: Social Darwinism old and new: the case of sociobiology.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-334) and index.

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