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Product Description: For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre...read more
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9780819576231 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre.
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9780819576248 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution, the ape-man theory of human origins, and the principle of sexual selection -- on established transatlantic intellectual traditions and cultural practices...read more
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9780415872348 | Routledge, November 16, 2009, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture.
Paperback:
9781138867758 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 23, 2015), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture.
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9780203863336 | Routledge, November 16, 2009, cover price $110.00
Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between Âcivilizationâ and Âsavageryâ in twentieth-century AmericaThe atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and Americaâs frontier.In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics.Sharp dissects Darwinâs arguments regarding the struggle between Âcivilizationâ and Âsavagery,â theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bushâs ÂAxis of Evil,â Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite Âsavagesâ gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the Âwar on terror.â His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginningÂand that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life.
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9780806138220 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between Âcivilizationâ and Âsavageryâ in twentieth-century AmericaThe atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom.
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9780806143064 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $24.95
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