Capitalist Contexts for Darwinian Theory: Land, Finance, Industry and Empire
| Autor: | M. J. S. Hodge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Population Capitalism History and Philosophy of Science Political science Humans Industry Investments Selection Genetic Industrial Revolution education History of science media_common education.field_of_study Politics Empire History 19th Century Neoclassical economics Epistemology Philosophy of biology England Social Class Darwin (ADL) Darwinism General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the History of Biology. 42:399-416 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0387 0022-5010 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10739-009-9187-y |
| Popis: | When socio-economic contexts are sought for Darwin's science, it is customary to turn to the Industrial Revolution. However, important issues about the long run of England's capitalisms can only be recognised by taking a wider view than Industrial Revolution historiographies tend to engage. The role of land and finance capitalisms in the development of the empire is one such issue. If we historians of Darwin's science allow ourselves a distinction between land and finance capitalisms on the one hand and industrial capitalism on the other; and if we ask with which side of this divide were Darwin and his theory of branching descent by natural selection aligned, then reflection on leading features of that theory, including its Malthusian elements, suggests that the answer is often and largely, though not exclusively: on the land side. The case of Wallace, socialist opponent of land capitalism, may not be as anomalous for this suggestion as one might at first think. Social and economic historians have reached no settled consensuses on the long-run of England's capitalisms. We historians of Darwin's science would do well to import some of these unsettled states of discussion into our own work over the years to come. |
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