ISBN:
1855064545
,
1855064553
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXIII, 260 S.
Year of publication:
1996
Series Statement:
Key issues 14
Series Statement:
Key issues
DDC:
599.9709
Keywords:
Anthropologie physique - Histoire - Sources
;
Antropologie
;
Conscience de race - Histoire - Sources
;
Culturele antropologie
;
Geestesgeschiedenis
;
Race - Histoire - Sources
;
Racisme - Histoire - Sources
;
Rassentheorieën
;
Geschichte
;
Physical anthropology Sources History
;
Race
;
Race awareness Sources History
;
Racism Sources History
;
Quelle
Abstract:
The nineteenth century saw the rejection of earlier classifications of racial diversity - as grounded in environment, education, and divine origins - for that of scienticic racialism. Used to account for political problems within Europe, it justified imperialism and the imposition of rule over so-called primitive peoples. And yet such racial theory, which is nowadays seen as a characteristic development of the nineteenth century, had its foundations in the age of Enlightenment. This volume reproduces documents written between 1760 and 1850, surveying developments in Germany, France and England which reveal the rise of racial theory in all its complex diversity from Buffon and Blumenbach onwards.
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