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Autore |
Curran Andrew S |
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The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / / Andrew S. Curran |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Black people in literature |
Black people - Race identity |
French literature - 18th century - History |
French literature - 19th century - History |
Travel writing - History and criticism |
Africa In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy. |
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