Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences

With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945290
• ISBN13: 9780822945291
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"