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!Darwinistas! : the construction of evolutionary thought in nineteenth century Argentina / Alex Levine, Adriana Novoa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Alex, 1966-
- Series:
- History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 5.
- History of science and medicine library ; v. 27.
- History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 27
- Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
- Evolution (Biology)--Argentina--History--19th century.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Evolution (Biology)--Social aspects--Argentina--History--19th century.
- Scientists--Argentina--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Naturalists--Argentina--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Science--Argentina--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Argentina--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Argentina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages : illustrations)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Darwin in Argentina
- Conflicting Systems
- Francisco Javier Muniz (1795-1871)
- Hermann Burmeister (1807-1891)
- Francisco P. Moreno (1852-1919)
- Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-1888)
- Eduardo Holmberg (1852-1937)
- Florentino Ameghino (1854-1911)
- Jose Ingenieros (1877-1925)
- Carlos Octavio Bunge (1875-1918).
- Notes:
- Companion volume to: From man to ape : Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920. c2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-42627-7
- 9786613426277
- 90-04-22192-1
- OCLC:
- 773566765
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004221925 DOI
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