Darwinism, war, and history : the debate over the biology of war from the 'Origin of the species' to the First World War, Paul Crook

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Darwinism, war, and history : the debate over the biology of war from the 'Origin of the species' to the First World War, Paul Crook

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the debate over the biology of war from the 'Origin of the species' to the First World War

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Paul Crook

Instantiates

• Darwinism, war, and history : the debate over the biology of war from the 'Origin of the species' to the First World War

Publication

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction.
• p. 1
• 1.
• Darwinian legacy.
• p. 6
• 2.
• age of Spencer and Huxley.
• p. 29
• 3.
• Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the net biology.
• p. 63
• 4.
• 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.
• p. 98
• 5.
• First World War: man the fighting animal.
• p. 130
• 6.
• survival of peace biology.
• p. 153
• 7.
• Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.
• p. 176
• 8.
• Conclusion.
• p. 192
• Appendix: Social Darwinism.
• p. 200
• Notes.
• p. 207
• Bibliography.
• p. 270
• Index.
• p. 298

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08b11062245

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24cm.

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xii,306p.

Isbn

9780521466455

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93011156

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b1988562