Author: Courtney Salvey
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Binfield, Kevin (ed), Writings of the Luddites
Kevin Binfield, ed, Writings of the Luddites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) xxviii + 279pp. $29.95 Pb, $55.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780801876127 The 2015 paperback edition of this 2004 collection testifies to the fascinations of Luddism – and to Writings of the Luddites’s continuing appeal and utility. It is the first collection of texts written…
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Livingstone, David N., Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) x + 263 pp. £26 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1326-6 In the early 1990s, John Hedley Brooke upset the troublingly persistent narrative of a conflict between science and religion. Instead, Brooke noticed the historical complexity and…
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Voigts, Eckart and Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds), Reflecting on Darwin (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014)
Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) xii + 231 pp. £95 Hb, £90.25 Kindle. ISBN 978-1-4724-1407-6 Scholars on Darwin and Darwinism will be disappointed with how little of Darwin himself there is in this book. Setting out to discover the significance of Darwin today (5), this book…
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Peterfreund, Stuart, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design
Stuart Peterfreund, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012). 212 pp. £58 Hb, EPUB, PDF. ISBN 978-0-230-10884-4. Since the publication of Gillian Beer’s Darwin’s Plots in 1983, Darwin and evolution have remained essential topics around which the preoccupations and methodologies of…
