Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : race and natural history, 1750-1850 / edited by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
xiv, 263 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Editor
    Series
    • Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine [More in this series]
    • Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : brief history of Blumenbach representation / Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer
    • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach-online / Gerhard Lauer and Heiko Weber
    • Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, Lichtenberg and the origins of modern anthropology / Carl Niekerk
    • Climate change and creolization in French natural history, 1750-1795 / E.C. Spary
    • Blumenbach's collection of human skulls / Wolfgang Böker
    • Blumenbach's theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind / Thomas Junker
    • A defence of human rights : Blumenbach on albinism / Renato G. Mazzolini
    • Blumenbach's race science in the light of Christian supersessionism / Terence Keel
    • The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl : quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races, 1750-1850 / Robert J. Richards
    • Ethnographic exploration in the Blumenbachian tradition / Peter Hanns Reill
    • The rise of paleontology and the historicization of nature : Blumenbach and Deluc / John H. Zammito
    • The roots of scientific racism and Huxley's rule / Nicolaas Rupke
    • Appendix: biographical sketch of Blumenbach.
    ISBN
    • 9781138738423 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 1138738425 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2018005205
    OCLC
    991339791
    Other standard number
    • 40028385018
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