04467oam 22008894a 450 991095647970332120240509063322.097815261345091526134500978152614665615261466579781526134493152613449710.7765/9781526134493(CKB)4100000008209533(MiAaPQ)EBC5824923(StDuBDS)EDZ0002153511(OCoLC)1119633990(MdBmJHUP)muse77720(DE-B1597)659760(DE-B1597)9781526134493(Perlego)1526243(EXLCZ)99410000000820953320190513d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBodies complexionedHuman variation and racism in early modern English culture, c. 1600–1750 /Mark S. Dawson1st ed.Manchester :Manchester University Press,2020.1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) illustrationsManchester scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.9781526163905 152616390X 9781526134486 1526134489 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and graphs -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Contemplating Christian temperaments -- Nativities established -- Bodies emblazoned -- Identifying the differently humoured -- Distempered skin and the English abroad -- National identities, foreign physiognomies, and the advent of whiteness -- Conclusion -- Appendix: tables of graph data -- Select bibliography -- A methodological note -- Index.Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of sources, this book examines how early modern English people understood bodily difference. It demonstrates that individuals' distinctive features were considered innate, even as discrete populations were believed to have characteristics in common, and challenges the idea that the humoral theory of bodily composition was incompatible with visceral inequality or racism. While 'race' had not assumed its modern valence, and 'racial' ideologies were still to come, such typecasting nonetheless had mundane, lasting consequences. Grounded in humoral physiology, and Christian universalism notwithstanding, bodily prejudices inflected social stratification, domestic politics, sectarian division and international relations.Book collections on Project MUHISTORY / Modern / 17th CenturybisacshRacismfast(OCoLC)fst01086616Physical anthropologyfast(OCoLC)fst01062357Discriminationfast(OCoLC)fst00894985SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / MammalsbisacshNATURE / Animals / MammalsbisacshRacismEnglandHistory18th centuryRacismEnglandHistory17th centuryDiscriminationEnglandHistory18th centuryDiscriminationEnglandHistory17th centuryPhysical anthropologyEnglandHistory18th centuryPhysical anthropologyEnglandHistory17th centuryEnglandfastHistory.HISTORY / Modern / 17th CenturyRacism.Physical anthropology.Discrimination.SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals.NATURE / Animals / Mammals.RacismHistoryRacismHistoryDiscriminationHistoryDiscriminationHistoryPhysical anthropologyHistoryPhysical anthropologyHistory599.90941Dawson Mark S(Mark Stanley),1972-1805256MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910956479703321Bodies complexioned4353730UNINA