Labeling people: French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848
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Main Author: Staum, Martin S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2003
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas 36
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
"During the turbulent era of revolution and industrialization in nineteenth-century France, scholars searched for methods to distinguish individual dispositions to intelligence and good character. They also sought to prove the superiority of Europeans. In Labeling People Martin S. Staum explores the use of geography, phrenology, and ethnology to classify people, showing how early nineteenth-century concepts of racial inequality prefigured the imperialist associationist discourse of the Third Republic. Such ideas justified European tutelage of 'civilizable' peoples and provided an open invitation to dominate and exploit the 'uncivilizable.'" --Book Jacket
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 245 p.)
ISBN:0773525807
0773571248
9780773525801
9780773571242

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