This volume covers the cultural history of race in 'the long 19th century' - the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarchical imperial formations were challenged by the emerging national norm. The concept of race emerged as a dominant epistemology in the context of the conflicting entanglement of empire and nation as two alternative but quite compatible forms of social imaginary. It penetrated all spheres of life under the novel conditions of the emerging mass culture and mass society and with the sanction of...
This volume covers the cultural history of race in 'the long 19th century' - the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which ...
