ISBN:
9789401006026
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (282p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 221
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 221
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Keywords:
Evolutionary biology.
;
Evolution (Biology)
;
History
;
Social sciences
Abstract:
This book provides both for academic historians and the general reader a broad perspective on Darwin's impact in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. In Latin American countries with black and Amerindian populations, evolutionary theory was quickly mobilized for theorizing racial differences, while in Spain attention was focused on class differentiation, explained by a series of Darwinian, Social Darwinist, and Eugenic hypotheses. The wide variety of approaches to evolutionary and social theory in countries whose culture was very similar points illuminates those issues thought to be of particular significance for national identity, whether political, ethnic, or racial
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-0602-6
URL:
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