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The Victorian reinvention of race : new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
9780415881258, 9780203844984, 020384498X, 0415881250
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2408844 bytes)
Series
Routledge studies in modern British history, 4
Pages
258\258
Time added
2013-04-15 18:00:00

Description

In mid-Victorian England, there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. Exploring the changing attitudes towards race during this period, this book examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race-prejudice penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. Introduction : reinventing racism -- Tocqueville and race -- Gobineau, Bagehot's precursor -- The common sense of Walter Bagehot -- Bagehot rewrites Gobineau -- Darwin and race -- Argyll, race, and degeneration -- Frederick Weld and the unnamed neighbours -- By way of a conclusion : Arthur Gordon

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