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Author

Hawkins, Mike, 1946-

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

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	304.509 H314s	---	Available

Description	x, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-334) and index.
Contents	Defining Social Darwinism -- Distinctiveness of Social Darwinism -- 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 -- Eugenic conscience -- Social Darwinism, nature and sexual difference -- Nazism, Fascism and Social Darwinism.
Subject	Social Darwinism -- History.
ISBN	052157434X (pbk.)
	0521574005 (hardback)