ISBN:
9781350346369
Language:
English
Pages:
248 Seiten
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15 Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
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Rassentheorie
;
Adel
;
Großbritannien
;
Race / History / 18th century
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Great Britain / Race relations / History / 18th century
;
British & Irish history
;
Geschichte
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Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
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HISTORY / Europe / Ireland
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HISTORY / General
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HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
;
History
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History: specific events & topics
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Race / Histoire / 18e siècle
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Grande-Bretagne / Relations raciales / Histoire / 18e siècle
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Großbritannien
;
Adel
;
Rassentheorie
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
Abstract:
"Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain focuses on 18th-century Britain and Ireland at a time when race theory as we know it today was steadily emerging in the realm of natural philosophy to examine the structural relationship between nobility and race.This ground-breaking book examines texts from the fields of naturalism, political philosophy, medicine, and colonial venture, as well as interrogating works of drama and literature, in order to track how climate-based understandings of human variety at this time became increasingly imbued with noble traditions of genealogical purity and hierarchies of descent. This process, the book argues, allowed British naturalists and wider society to understand global populations according to an already familiar pattern of genealogical inequality, and offered the proponents of race theory a ready made model of natural supremacy.In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Tim McInerney explains why nobility and race developed in the way they did and how the premise of each promoted a certain idea of superiority. The result is a necessary in-depth understanding of how genealogical exclusivity works as a power strategy, vital to students and scholars alike."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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