National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840 1945 - Couverture souple

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9781496225849: National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840 1945
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ISBN 10 : 1496225848 ISBN 13 : 9781496225849
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2021

Synopsis

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.

Contributors address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. On the other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary project was a vital episode in the development of the social sciences, using biological race classification to explain the history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations.

National Races delves to the heart of tensions between nationalism and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries. Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists.


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À propos de l?auteur

Richard McMahon teaches European Union politics at University College London. He is the author of The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839-1939.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496225848
ISBN 13 
9781496225849
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
402
Éditeur
McMahon Richard
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Personne responsable
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9781496205827: National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1496205820 ISBN 13 :  9781496205827
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2019
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