Social and Intellectual Developments of the Late 19 th Century HWH UNIT 6 CHAPTER 9.3
Darwin and Evolution Precursors to Darwin Sir Charles Lyell ( ) Uniformitarianism
Charles Darwin ( )
The Voyage of the HMS Beagle Galapagos Islands
The Origin of the Species (1859)
Herbert Spencer ( ) and Social Darwinism
The “ New Science ” Dmitri Mendeleyev ( )
Social Developments
“ Victorian ” Society Queen Victoria (r ) and Prince Albert
The “Cult of Domesticity” Very bourgeois Concerned with status Women in the house Very repressive