دانلود کتاب Evolution and the Victorians: Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin’s Britain

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nList of illustrations\nTimeline\nA note on currency\nIntroduction: ‘I think’\n Darwin’s problem with species\n Evolution after Darwin\n Playing Huxley’s game\n Further reading\nPart One The Longest Discovery, 1750–1870\n Chapter One Natural theology\n Revolutionary appetencies\n Malthus and population\n The invisible hand\n Further reading\n Chapter Two Comparative anatomy\n Lamarck and Cuvier\n Crossing the channel\n The Owenite settlement\n Further reading\n Chapter Three Writing The Origin\n The voyage of HMS Beagle\n Mental rioting\n Alfred Russel Wallace\n Further reading\n Chapter Four Reading The Origin\n ‘One long argument’\n Darwin’s bulldog\n The Descent of Man\n A Darwinian revolution?\n Further reading\nPart Two Lines of Descent, 1850–1914\n Chapter Five Christian evolution? Charles Kingsley’s ‘natural theology of the future’\n The apostle of the flesh\n Reproduce, rinse, repeat\n Dogmatic atheism versus agnosticism\n Further reading\n Chapter Six Imperial evolution? ‘Greater Britons’ and other races\n Absence of mind?\n Enlightenment and Emancipation\n Ethnology or anthropology?\n Escape or extinction?\n Further reading\n Chapter Seven Progressive evolution? Herbert Spencer, social science and ‘Social Darwinism’\n Springs of action: Childhood and youth\n Statics and kinetics\n The laws of development\n Man Versus the State\n Further reading\n Chapter Eight Domestic evolution? Making a home for science\n Reading and rambling\n Treasuring and teaching\n Further reading\n Chapter Nine Sustainable evolution? Alfred Russel Wallace and the Wonderful Century\n Spiritualist science\n Land and labour\n The view from Davos\n Further reading\n Conclusion: The Longest Discovery\n Further readin\nGlossary\nIndex