Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development

by Thomas A. McCarthy

Book Overview

In an exciting study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521740436
• ISBN13: 9780521740432
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"