Essays on Social Darwinism

In 1859, Charles Darwin had published On the Origins of Species, which talked about the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. Thinkers at the time had applied Darwin’s discoveries to human society; one of them…

Why were the social construction of Jim Crow and Social Darwinism, as ideologies so significant to the social, economic and political landscape of the United States into the 20th Century? Be Exhaustive in your answer. The Social Darwinism is theory at the time that strongest…

Renato Constantino’s The Philippines: A Past Revisited contains a specific chapter on the American expansionism, Social Darwinism and the clash of the industrial north versus the agricultural in the United States that swept beyond just its thirteen colonies. The slaughtering and enslaving of “inferior races”…

Subversive Uses of Social Darwinism in Howards End The persistent theme of social Darwinism in Howards End suggests England belongs not to those plucky, sensitive types that Forster himself idealizes in his essay “What I Believe,” but to a more practical type that Forster acknowledges…

The Role of Darwinism in America Darwinism has been a factor in American society since around 1859, although at that early time Charles Darwin had only addressed animal and plant-based evolution. In 1871, with The Descent of Man, he brought to the public’s attention his…