ISBN:
9780773525801
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Parallel Title:
Print version Labeling People : French Scholars on Society, Race and Empire, 1815-1848
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Physical anthropology ; France ; History ; 19th century
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Société de géographie (France) ; History
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Société de géographie de Paris ; Histoire
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Société ethnologique de Paris ; Histoire
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Société ethnologique de Paris ; History
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Société phrénologique de Paris ; Histoire
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Société phrénologique de Paris ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
While previous studies have contrasted the relative optimism of middle-class social scientists before 1848 with a later period of concern for national decline and racial degeneration, Staum demonstrates that the earlier learned societies were also fearful of turmoil at home and interested in adventure abroad. Both geographers and ethnologists created concepts of fundamental "racial" inequality that prefigured the imperialist "associationist" discourse of the Third Republic, believing that European tutelage would guide "civilizable" peoples, and providing an open invitation to dominate and exploit the "uncivilizable.".
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
