The Anthropological History of Europe (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Beddoe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330361482 ISBN 13 : 9781330361481

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unravel the threads of Europe's past through the science of skulls, tongues, and travel across centuries.

This scholarly work surveys how ancient peoples—Phoenicians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, and many others—shaped the physical and cultural landscape of Europe. It examines the rise and mixing of populations, the evidence behind the Aryan question, and how environment, diet, and migration have influenced faces, stature, and skull shapes from the Alps to the Baltic. Written to illuminate both the mysteries and limits of early anthropological methods, the book invites readers to weigh ideas about race, history, and identity against the facts of material culture and geography.

- Learn how early scholars linked language, territory, and body form to explain Europe’s peoples.
- Understand different skull types, measurements, and what they may or may not reveal about ancestry.
- See how regional histories—from Scandinavia to the Balkans, from Switzerland to the British Isles—shape our view of “types.”
- Consider the role of climate, conquest, and cultural exchange in molding populations over time.

Ideal for readers of history, anthropology, and curious non-specialists who want a careful, debated look at Europe’s racial and cultural formation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Anthropological History of Europe

This new edition of The Anthropological History of Europe seems to be called for not only by the exhaustion of the earlier one, but by the lapse of time (twenty years) since the delivery of the Rhind Lectures of 1891, during which period the limits of what may fairly be termed history have been pushed back in some parts of Europe by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the views I originally expressed on some parts of the subject have either been confirmed or rendered more problematical. I have endeavoured therefore to bring the volume up to date, but have avoided entering on the discussion of such subjects as pygmies and steatopygous men in Europe, of which we as yet know little, and which must as yet be excluded from the domain of history.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330361482
• ISBN 13: 9781330361481
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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