Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of RaceThis work fills a gap in recent studies on the history of race and science. Focusing on both the classification systems of human variety and the development of science as the arbiter of truth, Brown looks at the rise of the emerging sciences of life and society – biology and sociology – as well as the debate surrounding slavery and abolition. |
Contents
Ecce Homo or Slavery and Human Variety | 1 |
1 Classification and the Species Question | 17 |
2 Polygenesis and the Types of Mankind | 59 |
Science Against Slavery | 99 |
The Authority of the Sciences of Life | 149 |
Notes | 155 |
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Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race B. Ricardo Brown No preview available - 2016 |
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