... of the First World War led many towards more extreme affiliations, and both Fascism and Marxism held attractions for many intellectuals and workers, particularly during the 1930s. A strong social ethic, continued from the Victorian times of Dickens and Disraeli, began increasingly to influence the political character of the country and its institutions. The Gladstone Parliament of 1880– ... it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropolo...

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... in 1859, and within a decade popularizers had used--or misused--his theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest to contemporary politics and economics. This pseudoscientific social Darwinism interested educated Europeans already discouraged by a century of higher criticism of religious scribbles and conscious of the competitiveness of their own daily lives in that age of ... belief in the natural understanding and dominance of Nordic peoples continued Joseph Chamberlain's belief that an Anglo-American-German alliance should preside over the world in the 20th century. Vulga...

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... turning points in civilization, such as "the adoption of upright posture, early man's first use of tools, the development of language, culture as an adaptive strategy, food sharing, food production, social stratification, urbanization, state organization, and now industrialization. All of these changes have been decisive ones - crucial developments with critical implications for the future. However, industrialization is a crisis in the true ... at the problems of the world through an anthropological perspective in order to get a good look at what is happening to our society. Bodley beli...

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