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Peter J. Bowler, Preface by David Knight Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian concept of progress. Paperback | Learn More |
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Martha McMackin Garland In this major contribution to the intellectual history of Cambridge University, Dr Garland takes as her main theme the rise of a specific educational ideal in early Victorian Cambridge, how it enjoyed a moment of triumph, and then how it fell under the impact of a new set of challenges. Paperback | Learn More |
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F. W. Nicholas, J. M. Nicholas Drawing upon the Australian section of Darwin's diary and extracts, this book traces Darwin's travels there in 1836. Paperback | Learn More |
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Charles Darwin's Natural Selection Charles Darwin, Edited by R. C. Stauffer An original, unpublished manuscript written before The Origin of Species which contains the references to journal articles and books that Darwin used in formulating his controversial ideas. Paperback | Learn More |
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Edited by Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse Including some of today's leading historians and philosophers of science, this collection demonstrates that not all is precisely as it is too often assumed. Hardback | Learn More |
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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. Hardback | Learn More |
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Edited by Ronald L. Numbers, John Stenhouse This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Paperback | Learn More
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Eugene Cittadino The science of botany underwent a dramatic change in the late nineteenth century. A reform movement originating in Germany took the traditionally destructive approach to the study of plant structure and physiology and transformed it into a study of plant adaptation. Paperback | Learn More |
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution Nikolaus Ritt This new perspective on language change looks at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words and explains them in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Hardback | Learn More
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