The geography of Darwinism

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-41

  Livingstone, David N ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Adam's Ancestors ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARWIN'S THEORY; DARWINISMS; NATURAL HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; NEW ZEALAND; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC TEXTS; SOUTH CAROLINA;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33745669362     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801806X84219     Document Type: Review

References (44)

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2. See for example D. N. Livingstone: Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge; 2003, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press;
3. J. Agar and C. Smith (ed.): Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge; 1998, London, Macmillan;
4. and the recent issue of the British Journal for the History of Science devoted to the theme 'Historical geographies of science', 2005, 38.
5. M. Foucault: 'Of other spaces', Diacritics, 1986, 16, 22-27, 22-23.
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11. N. Rupke: 'A geography of Enlightenment: the critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's Mexico work', in Geography and Enlightenment, (ed. D. N. Livingstone and C. W. J. Withers), 281-294; 1999, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
12. J. A. Secord: Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation; 2001, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
13. See for example T. F. Glick (ed.): The Comparative Reception of Darwinism; 1974, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
14. See D. N. Livingstone: 'Darwin in Belfast: the evolution debate', in Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History, (ed. J. W. Foster), 387-408; 1997, Dublin, Lilliput Press.
15. D. N. Livingstone: 'Public spectacle and scientific theory: William Robertson Smith and the reading of evolution in Victorian Scotland', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2004, 35, 1-29.
16. D. N. Livingstone: 'Darwinism and Calvinism: the Belfast-Princeton connection', Isis, 1992, 83, 408-428.
17. See M. H. Hampton: '"Handmaid" or "assailant": debating science and scripture in the culture of the lost cause', PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2004.
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26. The plurality of opinions on Darwinism in the South more generally is stressed in R. L. Numbers and L. D. Stephens: 'Darwinism in the American South', in Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender, (ed. R. L. Numbers and J. Stenhouse), 123-143; 1999, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press.
27. On the reaction of New Zealanders to evolution I have learned much from two articles by John Stenhouse. See J. Stenhouse: The Darwinian Enlightenment and New Zealand politics', in Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific, (ed. R. MacLeod and P. F. Rehbock), 395-425; 1994, Honolulu, HI, University of Hawaii Press;
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33. J. Stenhouse: 'Darwinism in New Zealand', pp. 76, 81 (see Note 24).
34. C. Darwin: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex; 1871, London, John Murray.
35. J. Giles: 'Waitara and the native question', Southern Monthly Magazine, 1863, 1, 215.
36. Quoted in D. P. Todes: Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought, 110-111; 1989, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
37. D. P. Todes: Darwin Without Malthus, Chapter 6 (see Note 32).
38. G. Woodcock and I. Avakumovic: The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin; 1950, London,
39. T. V. Boardman; M. A. Miller: Kropotkin; 1976, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
40. D. P. Todes: Darwin Without Malthus, p. 104 (see Note 32).
41. P. Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: A factor of Evolution, 293; 1939, Penguin, Harmondsworth (first published 1902).
42. See also discussion in D. N. Livingstone: The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise, 254-258; 1992, Oxford, Blackwell.
43. D. P. Todes: Darwin Without Malthus, p. 29 (see Note 32).
44. See D. N. Livingstone: 'Tropical hermeneutics and the climatic imagination', Geographische Zeitschrift, 2002, 90, 65-88.