Emeritus Professor Paul Crook
Emeritus Professor
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Researcher biography
Emeritus Professor Crook has published widely on Anglo-American history and Darwinian themes. His more recent books include Darwinism, War and History (Cambridge, 1994); Darwin’s Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism (Peter Lang, 2007); and Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptology and the Diffusion of Culture (Sussex, 2012).
Books
Crook, Paul (2012). Grafton Elliot Smith, Egyptology and the diffusion of culture: a biographical perspective. Brighton, United Kingdom: Sussex Academic Press.
Crook, Paul (2007). Darwin's Coat-tails: Essays on Social Darwinism. New York: Peter Lang.
Crook, Paul (1994). Darwinism, War and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the 'Origin of Species' to the First World War. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Crook, D. P. (1984). Benjamin Kidd, Portrait of a Social Darwinist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crook, D. P. (1975). Diplomacy During the American Civil War. New York, NY, United States: John Wiley & Sons.
Crook, David Paul (1974). The North, the South and the Powers, 1861-65. New York, NY, United States: John Wiley & Sons.
Crook, David Paul (1965). American Democracy in English Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapters
Cox, Damian and Crook, Peter (2015). Plato's paradox of leadership. Leadership and ethics. (pp. 129-150) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Crook, D. P. (2003). The case against area bombing. Patrick Blacketi: Sailor, Scientist and Socialist. (pp. 167-186) edited by Hore and Peter. Great Britain: Frank Cass.
Crook, D. P. (2000). Whiggery and America: Accommodating the radical threat. Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1755-1848. Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. (pp. 191-206) Basingstoke, England: Macmillan.
Journal Articles
Crook, Paul (2016). Review of 'How Empire shaped us' Edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (3), 489-490. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12294
Crook, Paul (2015). Social darwinism: myth and reality. This View of Life
Crook, Paul (2015). Review of Malthus: the life and legacy of an untimely prophet. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 152-153.
Crook, Paul (2015). Review of The life of R. H. Tawney: socialism and history. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 153-154.
Crook, Paul (2014). Book review of The intellectual world of CS Lewis. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (3), 484-485.
Crook, Paul (2014). (Book review) The Habsburgs: the history of a dynasty. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1), 145-146.
Crook, Paul (2013). GK Chesterton: A Biography. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (3), 490-491. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12028
Crook, Paul (2013). Egypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s-1940s. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (3), 499-500. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12028
Crook, DP (2007). English public opinion and the American Civil War.. English Historical Review, 122 (495), 209-211. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cel407
Crook, D. P. (2005). Review of War against the weak: Eugenics and America's campaign to create a master race by E Black. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1 (51), 144-145.
Crook, Paul (2002). Eugenics, genetics and feeblemindedness in interwar Britain: How scientists coped with the problem of the Goddard data and the Hardy-Weinberg formula. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 13 (1), 101-119.
Crook, D. P. (2002). Review of The Nazi War on Cancer.. The European Legacy, 7 (2), 239-241.
Crook, D. P. (2002). American Eugenics and the Nazis: Recent historiography. The European Legacy, 7 (3), 363-380.
Crook, D. P. (2000). Review of M. Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?. The European Legacy, 5 (4), 585-588.
Crook, Paul (2000). British anthropologists face the Nazis: the prelude to the Race and Culture Committee Report 1934-36. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 11, 38-69.
Crook, Paul (1999). Historical monkey business: The myth of a Darwinized British imperial discourse. History, 84 (276), 633-657. doi: 10.1111/1468-229X.00127
Crook, Paul (1999). Ideology of the master race: eugenics and scientific racism in the United States and the Third Reich. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 10, 53-62.
Crook, Paul (1997). Was Charles Darwin to blame for Cecil Rhodes? Evolution and empire. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 8, 60-82.
Crook, Paul (1992). The debate over the biology of war during World War I. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 2, 34-38.
Reference Entry
Crook, D. P. (2004). Kidd, Benjamin (1858-1916).