Title: Global Spencerism : the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist /
Authors: Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Spencer, Herbert,; Spencer, Herbert,; Evolution; Evolution
Contents: 1. "What a go-a-head people they are!": the hostile appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia -- 2. Spencer's Arabic readers -- 3. Spencerism in Japan: boom and bust of a theory -- 4. Spencer and science education in China -- 5. The reforming Spencerians: William James, Josiah Royce and John Dewey -- 6. Spencer's American disciples: Fiske, Youmans, and the appropriation of the system -- 7. The ideology of the "survival of the fittest" during the Porfiriato in Mexico -- 8. The rise and fall of Spencer's evolutionary ideas in Argentina, 1870-1910 -- 9. Spencerism in Brazil: an introduction -- 10. The importance of being quantified: Herbert Spencer in liberal Italy, and beyond -- 11. Education and evolution: appropriations of Herbert Spencer in Scandinavia, 1870-1920 -- 12. A 'Spencerian moment' in French cultural history? Spencer in France (1870-1890).