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Darwinistas!: The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina

By Alex Levine , Adriana Novoa

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2012
ISBN
9004221360, 9789004221369
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2909496 bytes)
Series
History of Science and Medicine Library / Scientific and Lea
Pages
279\298
Time added
2017-03-23 11:45:37
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Description

Treatments of the reception of Darwinism have focused on Western Europe and North America. This book turns to Argentina in the second half of the nineteenth century. Having hosted Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle, Argentina had a claim to being the cradle of Darwinism. Such claims, together with other cultural currents placed the appropriation or rejection of Darwinism at the center of the struggle to articulate the national identity of the emerging Argentine Republic. Two chapters of original historiography are followed by eight chapters of new English translations of primary sources from the Argentine reception of Darwinism, including texts (by Domingo Sarmiento, Eduardo Holmberg, and others) well known to students of Latin American letters, but never before published in English.

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