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Paperback The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Book

ISBN: 0415652782

ISBN13: 9780415652780

The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

(Part of the Routledge Studies in Modern British History Series)

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In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth...

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