02887nam 2200649Ia 450 991082429650332120200520144314.01-136-92399-31-136-92400-01-283-28217-897866132821700-203-84498-X10.4324/9780203844984 (CKB)2670000000036242(EBL)547350(OCoLC)658193359(SSID)ssj0000430585(PQKBManifestationID)11270628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430585(PQKBWorkID)10453663(PQKB)10216092(MiAaPQ)EBC547350(Au-PeEL)EBL547350(CaPaEBR)ebr10413129(CaONFJC)MIL328217(EXLCZ)99267000000003624220100325d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Victorian reinvention of race new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences /Edward BeasleyFirst edition.New York, NY Routledge20101 online resource (258 p.)Routledge studies in modern British history ;4Description based upon print version of record.0-415-65278-2 0-415-88125-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 centRoutledge studies in modern British history ;4.RacismRace relationsRacism.Race relations.305.8Beasley Edward1964-934455MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824296503321The Victorian reinvention of race4000658UNINA