ISBN:
9780226983424
,
9780226983462 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
376 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780226983462
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
301.0943
Keywords:
Geschichte 1871-1914
;
Anthropologie
;
Deutschland
Abstract:
With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was this more true than in nineteenth-century Germany. It was there, Andrew Zimmerman argues, that the battle lines of today's ""culture wars"" were first drawn when anthropology challenged humanism as a basis for human scientific knowledge.Drawing on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of ""freak shows,"" Zimmerman demonstrates how German imperialism ...
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,
Online-Ausg.:
