Labeling people [[electronic resource] ] : French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848 / / Martin S. Staum

• Autore: Staum Martin S
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 245 p
• Disciplina: 305.8/00944/09034
• Soggetto topico: Physical anthropology - France - History - 19th century; Phrenology - France - History - 19th century; Racism - France - History - 19th century; Learned institutions and societies - France - Paris - History - 19th century; Racism in anthropology - France - History - 19th century; Imperialism - History - 19th century; Racisme - France - Histoire - 19e siècle; Sociétés savantes et instituts - France - Paris - Histoire - 19e siècle; Sciences sociales - France - Histoire - 19e siècle; Impérialisme - Histoire - 19e siècle
• Soggetto geografico: France Colonies History 19th century; France Colonies Histoire 19e siècle
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Bell Curve and the Nineteenth-Century Organic Society -- The Facial Angle, Physiognomy, and Racial Theory -- The Ambivalence of Phrenology -- Human Geography, “Race,” and Empire -- Ethnology and the Civilizability of “Races” -- Constructing the “Other” in the Early Social Sciences -- Appendices -- Active Members of the Société phrénologique de Paris or supporters of phrenology -- Société de géographie de Paris Founders -- Members of the Société ethnologique de Paris -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: While previous studies have contrasted the relative optimism of middle-class social scientists before 1848 with a later period of concern for national decline and racial degeneration, Staum demonstrates that the earlier learned societies were also fearful of turmoil at home and interested in adventure abroad. Both geographers and ethnologists created concepts of fundamental "racial" inequality that prefigured the imperialist "associationist" discourse of the Third Republic, believing that European tutelage would guide "civilizable" peoples, and providing an open invitation to dominate and exploit the "uncivilizable."
• Titolo autorizzato: Labeling people
• ISBN: 1-282-86128-X; 9786612861284; 0-7735-7124-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783795703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 36.