Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780822945291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Efram Sera-Shriar

Opis

Takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.