Background
Crook, David Paul was born on January 12, 1937 in Brisbane, Australia. Son of David Ernest and Alice May (Harris) Crook.
(This is an intellectual biography of Benjamin Kidd, a lea...)
This is an intellectual biography of Benjamin Kidd, a leading Social Darwinist in the years before World War I, and a social prophet in the tradition of Comte and Spencer. His first book Social Evolution, published in 1894, was an immediate and enormous success around the world. In it, Kidd developed a collectivist form of Social Darwinism in tune with the values of Progressivism in America and the 'new liberalism' in Britain. By many it was regarded as the basis for a properly scientific sociology, and the combination of its claims to scientific methodology, with an emphasis on non-rational forces as the agents of progress accurately caught the temper of its times. Launched on his career as a writer, Kidd's subsequent books and journalism continued to exercise extraordinary influence. His 'social imperialism', linking a bio-political defence of empire with a programme of social reform, won currency in the Anglo-American world at a time of expansionary fervour.
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This book challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of "peace biology," whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world prior to 1919, this study throws important new light on militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.
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Crook, David Paul was born on January 12, 1937 in Brisbane, Australia. Son of David Ernest and Alice May (Harris) Crook.
Bachelor with honors, University Queensland, Australia, 1958. Doctor of Letters, University Queensland, Australia, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1961.
Lecturer, U. Queensland, Brisbane, 1962-1965; senior lecturer, U. Queensland, Brisbane, 1965-1969; reader, U. Queensland, Brisbane, 1969-1990; professor, U. Queensland, Brisbane, since 1990.
(This is an intellectual biography of Benjamin Kidd, a lea...)
(This book challenges the received view that Darwinism gen...)
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Member Australian History Association.
Married Monica Josephine Burke, May 7, 1960 (divorced 1999). Children: Lisa Mary, Peter Francis, Daniel Sebastian, Gabrielle Maria. Married Ann Leslie Wallin, November 13, 1999.