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

by Richard McMahon

Book Overview

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496205820
• ISBN13: 9781496205827
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"