ISBN:
9781526102669
,
9781526102676
,
9781781705766
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 344 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1870-1914
;
British & Irish History / bicssc
;
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / bisach
;
European history / United Kingdom, Great Britain / thema
;
Minorities / Great Britain / History / 19th century
;
Asians / Great Britain / History / 19th century
;
Blacks / Great Britain / History / 19th century
;
Abolitionismus
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Great Britain / Race relations / History / 19th century
;
Great Britain / Ethnic relations / History / 19th century
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Abolitionismus
;
Geschichte 1870-1914
Abstract:
By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the ‘colour question’. It offers a revisionist account of race in science, and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of race, colonialism and culture, and to a readership interested in the history of science and race, anti-slavery and humanitarian movements, and the roots of anti-racist resistance
Abstract:
‘Science, Race Relations and Resistance impresses with its exploration of racial rhetoric, and convincingly unravels the tangled relationship between scientific racism and the real problems posed by the ‘colour question’. It thus manages to align imperial history and anthropological history in a new and credible way, and will undoubtedly be valued by scholars in both fields.’ -- Elise Juzda Smith, The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 101, Issue 347
Abstract:
‘Ultimately, Lorimer’s Science, Race Relations and Resistance, 1870–1914 is a wide ranging and important survey of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century 362 Book Reviews debates on race and race relations that will be of interest to historians of Britain, imperialism and racism.’ -- Sadiah Qureshi, The University of Birmingham, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 25 Mar 2015
Description / Table of Contents:
General Editor’s introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate development -- Part I: Race -- 3. Race and science: from institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871–1914 -- 4. Race, popular science, and empire -- Part II: The language of race relations -- 5. From colour prejudice to race relations -- 6. The colour question – 'The greatest difficulty in the British Empire', 1900–14 -- Part III: Resistance -- 7. Resistance: initiatives and obstacles -- 8. Conclusion -- Index
DOI:
10.7765/9781526102669
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Permalink
