The evolutionists : American thinkers confront Charles Darwin, 1860-1920
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The evolutionists : American thinkers confront Charles Darwin, 1860-1920
（Critical issues in history）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2007
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species, published in 1859, had a wide impact in the United States and influenced thinking in many different fields of intellectual inquiry. The Evolutionists examines the major American thinkers who addressed Darwin's ideas and gave them applications. The book reviews the controversies evolutionary thinking introduced in science, religion, sociology, feminism, economics, law, and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Along the Way to Darwin Chapter 2: Darwin's Dangerous Idea Chapter 3: The Scientific Reception: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray Chapter 4: Protestant Orthodoxy: Charles Hodge and James McCosh Chapter 5: Protestant Liberalism: Henry Ward Beecher and John Bascom Chapter 6: Sociology: William Graham Summer and Lester Frank Ward Chapter 7: Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Eliza Burt Gamble Chapter 8: Methodologies: Thorstein Veblen and Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr. Chapter 9: Philosophy: William James and John Dewey
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