01755nam a2200385 i 4500991000657569707536041126m19901995it a b 000 0 ita d883660319X (V. 1)8836603440 (V. 2)8836604072 (V. 3)b13253591-39ule_instDip.to Studi Giuridiciita378.4Le università dell'Europa /a cura di Gian Paolo Brizzi, Jacques Verger ; testi di Maria Luisa Accorsi ... [et al.]Cinisello Balsamo :Silvana Editoriale,c1990-c19956 v. :ill. ;32 cmInclude riferimenti bibliografici[V. 1]: Lanascita delle università / introduzione di Jacques Le Goff. - 1990. -277 p.[V. 2]:Dal Rinascimento alle riforme religiose. -1991. -277 p.[V. 3]:Dal rinnovamento scientifico all'Età dei Lumi. - 1992. -277 p.[V. 6]:Gliuomini e i luoghi : secoli 12.-18. - 1993IniversitàEuropaStoriaEducazione medioevaleEuropaBrizzi, Gian PaoloVerger, JacquesAccorsi, Maria LuisaLe Goff, Jacques.b1325359102-04-1426-11-04991000657569707536LE027 378.40 BRI01.01V. 112027000070848le027gE30.00-l- 01010.i1394932926-11-04LE027 378.40 BRI01.01V. 21le027gE30.00-l- 00000.i1394939126-11-04LE027 378.40 BRI01.01V. 31le027gE30.00-l- 00000.i1394940826-11-04Università dell'Europa324830UNISALENTOle02726-11-04ma -itait 3004646nam 22008175 450 991096009630332120240418022128.09786613210623978128321062112832106229780812200140081220014410.9783/9780812200140(CKB)2550000000051284(OCoLC)759158231(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491982(SSID)ssj0000543317(PQKBManifestationID)11324886(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543317(PQKBWorkID)10531126(PQKB)11428906(DE-B1597)445288(OCoLC)979741003(DE-B1597)9780812200140(Perlego)731545(MiAaPQ)EBC3441525(EXLCZ)99255000000005128420190708d2010 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture /Roxann Wheeler1st ed.Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]©20001 online resource (382 p.)New Cultural StudiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780812217223 0812217225 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: The Empire of Climate -- Chapter 1. Christians, Savages, and Slaves -- Chapter 2. Racializing Civility -- Chapter 3. Romanticizing Racial Difference -- Chapter 4. Consuming Englishness -- Chapter 5. The Politicization of Race -- Epilogue: Theorizing Race and Racism in the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsIn the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but neither was the statement that followed: "here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men." The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period.Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment's scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety. As a consequence of a burgeoning empire in the second half of the eighteenth century, English writers were increasingly preoccupied with differentiating the British nation from its imperial outposts by naming traits that set off the rulers from the ruled; although race was one of these traits, it was by no means the distinguishing one. In the fiction of the time, non-European characters could still be "redeemed" by baptism or conversion and the British nation could embrace its mixed-race progeny. In Wheeler's eighteenth century we see the coexistence of two systems of racialization and to detect a moment when an older order, based on the division between Christian and heathen, gives way to a new one based on the assertion of difference between black and white.SOCIAL SCIENCEbisacSociology / GeneralbisacRace awarenessHistory18th centuryGreat BritainEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismDifference (Psychology)History18th centuryRace in literatureRegions & Countries - EuropeHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCGreat BritainHILCCSOCIAL SCIENCESociology / GeneralRace awarenessHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Difference (Psychology)HistoryRace in literature.Regions & Countries - EuropeHistory & ArchaeologyGreat Britain305.8/00941/09033MS 3530rvkWheeler Roxann, 1853825DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910960096303321The Complexion of Race4450545UNINA