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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783795703321

Autore

Staum Martin S

Titolo

Labeling people [[electronic resource] ] : French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848 / / Martin S. Staum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-282-86128-X

9786612861284

0-7735-7124-8

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 245 p

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 36

Disciplina

305.8/00944/09034

Soggetti

Physical anthropology - France - History - 19th century

Phrenology - France - History - 19th century

Racism - France - History - 19th century

Learned institutions and societies - France - Paris - History - 19th century

Racism in anthropology - France - History - 19th century

Imperialism - History - 19th century

Racisme - France - Histoire - 19e siècle

Sociétés savantes et instituts - France - Paris - Histoire - 19e siècle

Sciences sociales - France - Histoire - 19e siècle

Impérialisme - Histoire - 19e siècle

France Colonies History 19th century

France Colonies Histoire 19e siècle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Bell Curve and the Nineteenth-Century Organic Society -- The Facial Angle, Physiognomy, and Racial Theory -- The Ambivalence of Phrenology -- Human Geography, “Race,” and Empire -- Ethnology and the Civilizability of “Races” -- Constructing the “Other” in the Early Social Sciences -- Appendices -- Active Members of the Société phrénologique de Paris or supporters of phrenology -- Société de géographie de Paris Founders



-- Members of the Société ethnologique de Paris -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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."