Daniel Gasman Explained

Daniel E. Gasman (1933 – 19 December 2012)^[1] was an American historian at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York.^[2] He earned his PhD from University of Chicago in modern intellectual history.^[2] His most famous book is The Scientific Origins of National Socialism,^[3] which has been both praised^{[4] [5] [6]} and criticized^[7] by scholars. His second book, Haeckel’'s Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology, has been reviewed in journals.^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

Books

• The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League (London and New York: Macdonald and American Elsevier, 1971)
• Haeckel’'s Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology (New York: Peter Lang: 1998)

External links

• Daniel Gasman CV
• From Haeckel to Hitler: The Anatomy of a Controversy
• http://www.ferris.edu/isar/academic-controversies/gasman.htm

Notes and References

1. News: A prominent historian of science dies and no one takes notice. 2012 . History News Network. Mehler . Barry . 2015-01-03.
2. News: Curriculum Vitae . 2013 . Daniel . Gasman . 2013-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014181636/http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Gasman-cv.pdf . 2013-10-14 .
3. For example, see Simon Conway Morris, Life’’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (Cambridge: CUP, 2003) or GJ Stein, "Biological science and the roots of Nazism," American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1 1988.
4. Robert Herzstein, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism by Daniel Gasman", The Journal of Modern History Vol. 45, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 145-147
5. C. A. Culotta, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism. Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman", Isis, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Dec., 1972), pp. 587-588
6. Ralph H. Bowen, "The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jun., 1973), pp. 711-712
7. [Robert J. Richards|Richards, Robert J.]
8. Barry Mehler, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 207-209
9. Paul Weindling, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 117-118
10. [Roger Griffin]
11. Alexander De Grand, "Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology by Daniel Gasman," American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (Jun., 2000), pp. 883-884