Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009717987 ISBN 13 : 9781009717984

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from the Cold War and era of decolonisation to the present. Through multiple case studies, the chapters provide new angles on more familiar contexts, such as Enlightenment Europe, while introducing related themes in areas including India and New Zealand. Race in the Modern World offers a comparative understanding of the multiplicity of ways that race has been conceptualised, how these ideas changed over time, and how the world of ideas shapes the world in which we live.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sarah C. Dunstan is a Lecturer in the International History of Modern Human Rights at the University of Glasgow. Her first book, Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War One to Cold War (Cambridge, 2021), won the American Historical Association's 2022 J. Russell Major Prize. She is also a co-editor of the award-winning Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon (Cambridge, 2022).

Ian Stewart is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Previous publications include The Celts: A Modern History (2025), and his work on ideas of language, nation, and race can also be found in journals such as Past & Present and the Journal of Modern History, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009717987
• ISBN 13: 9781009717984
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Éditeur: Dunstan Sarah C., Stewart Ian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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