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This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although studies of Darwin and Darwinism have increased dramatically in the past few decades, knowledge of how various groups and regions responded to Darwinism remains unknown. The contributions to this volume collectively illustrate the importance of local social, physical, and religious arrangements, while showing that neither distance from Darwin's home at Down nor size of community greatly influenced how various regions responded to Darwinism. Essays spanning the world from Great Britain and North America to Australia and New Zealand explore the various meanings for Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference it made in the debates over evolution

"In popular culture, science and theology have often been portrayed as antagonistic. Some writers have described the history of the debate in terms of a surrender by theology, a retreat from the field of engagement: theology has abandoned the public arena, leaving all creation to science, and has opted instead for the safer ground of ethics, morality and personal or private belief. Science and Theology advocates a constructive dialogue between the two subjects and suggests the topics where they might meet. The essays in this volume were commissioned from leading figures around the world - experts in their own disciplines, but enthusiasts for debate at the science and theology interface. They include Norma Emerton, Owen Gingerich, Nancey Murphy, John Polkinghorne, John Puddefoot and Carver T. Yu. They discuss natural theology, the methodologies of science and theology, and theology in the light of scientific discovery. Their themes cover scientism, divine action in the world, the problem of evil, freedom and determinism, reductionism and humanity, the limits of knowledge, and chaos theory. Together, these essays offer a significant and positive contribution to one of the most exciting areas of modern thought."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Eugenics as a Transnational Subject: The British Dominions -- New Zealand in the Historiography of Eugenics -- Eugenics in the Context of British Imperial History -- The 'What' and 'Where' of Eugenics -- Complexities of Race -- Structure of the Volume -- 'Liberty of the Nation': Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand and the Limits of Illiberalism -- The Campaign for Sterilization -- Why did the Sterilization Campaign Fail? -- Conclusion -- Eugenics in Canada: Choice, Coercion and Context -- Eugenics in Canada -- Alberta: Ground Zero -- Volunteering for Sterilization -- Aboriginal Sterilizations -- Conclusion -- The Nature of Eugenic Thought and Limits of Eugenic Practice in Interwar Saskatchewan -- Eugenic Sterilization in New Zealand: The Story of the Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928 -- The Lead-up to the Bill -- Parliamentary Progress -- Outside Parliament: Public Opinion and Lobbying -- Why Were Clauses 21 and 25 Withdrawn? -- After 1928: The Campaign for Reinstating the Two Clauses -- Debating Clause 21: 'Eugenic Marriage' in New Zealand -- Eugenic Marriage Strategies -- Critiques of Eugenic Marriage -- The Fate of Clause 21 -- Undesirable Bill's Undesirables Bill: William Pember Reeves and Eugenics in Late-Victorian New Zealand -- Biographical Sketch of Reeves -- Historiography -- The Dying Māori: Biological Determinists and Their Critics, 1830s-1890s -- Science, the State and Poor Whites -- The Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Bill of 1894 -- Reception -- Conclusion -- Thinking Dangerous Thoughts: Post-primary Education and Eugenics in Australia: 1905-1939 -- Eugenics and the Education of All -- Secondary Education in the Colonies -- Eugenics, Berry and Tate -- Berry, Tate and the Development of Post-primary Education

"This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the way -- if they were protected from internal and external threat. This volume contributes to the increasingly comparative and international literature on the history of eugenics and to several ongoing historiographic debates, especially around issues of race. As white-settler societies, questions related to racial mixing and purity were inescapable, and a notable contribution of this volume is its attention to Indigenous populations, both as targets and on occasion agents of eugenic ideology."--