The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / / Andrew S. Curran
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| Autore: |
Curran Andrew S
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| Titolo: |
The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / / Andrew S. Curran
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 840.9/352996 |
| Soggetto topico: | Black people in literature |
| Black people - Race identity | |
| French literature - 18th century - History | |
| French literature - 19th century - History | |
| Travel writing - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa In literature |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The anatomy of blackness |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0230-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788455903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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