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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824296503321

Autore

Beasley Edward <1964->

Titolo

The Victorian reinvention of race : new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences / / Edward Beasley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-92399-3

1-136-92400-0

1-283-28217-8

9786613282170

0-203-84498-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in modern British history ; ; 4

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Racism

Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Reinventing Racism; 2 Tocqueville and Race; 3 Gobineau, Bagehot's Precursor; 4 The Common Sense of Walter Bagehot; 5 Bagehot Rewrites Gobineau; 6 Darwin and Race; 7 Argyll, Race, and Degeneration; 8 Frederick Weld and the Unnamed Neighbours; 9 By Way of a Conclusion: Arthur Gordon; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the cent