Darwin's coat-tails : essays on Social Darwinism / Paul Crook.

New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.

xiv, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Darwin's context -- Darwinism and politics -- Social Darwinism : the concept -- Evolution and religion -- Apes and angels : writings on Darwinism -- T.H. Huxley : nature red in tooth and claw -- Peter Kropotkin and mutual aid -- Dean Inge and cultural crisis -- Darwin on war and aggression -- Peter Chalmers Mitchell and peace biology -- Man the fighting animal : anticipations of sociobiology -- Historical monkey business -- British anthropologists face the Nazis -- We Europeans : a wrangle over race -- American and Nazi eugenics : flawed alliance -- Eugenics, genetics and feeblemindedness -- Segregation versus sterilization -- Julian Huxley's new religion : evolutionary humanism.