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Autore |
Dain Bruce R. <1967-> |
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Titolo |
A hideous monster of the mind [[electronic resource] ] : American race theory in the early republic / / Bruce Dain |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Race - History |
Race - Philosophy |
Racism - United States - History |
Racism in anthropology - United States - History |
Race discrimination - United States - History |
Eugenics - United States - History |
African Americans - Public opinion |
Public opinion - United States |
United States Race relations |
United States Moral conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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 (p. [265]-310) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 The Face of Nature -- 2 Culture and the Persistence of Race -- 3 The Horrors of St. Domingue -- 4 The Mutability of Human Affairs -- 5 Conceiving Universal Equality -- 6 Black Immediatism -- 7 The New Ethnology -- 8 Effacing the Individual -- Notes -- Index |
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