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Subject(s)

• Great Britain—Colonies—Africa [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—Africa [Browse]
• Racism—History [Browse]
• Great Britain—Race relations [Browse]
• South Africa—Race relations [Browse]
• South Africa—Colonization [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index.

Contents

• Some methodological and theoretical issues
• The foundations of racism
• Europe and its Others
• 'From Orang-Outangs to pumpkin eaters': The case of Edward Long's History of Jamaica
• Race, the Second British Empire and the role of the evangelicals
• Robert Knox: The races of men
• race as destiny : the politics of Dr James Hunt and the Anthropological Society of London 1863 to 1870
• Eugenics and the doctrine of class and racial supremacy : the case of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson
• Race as an Imperial weapon: convicts and the extinction of Tasmanians
• The political economy of scientific racism in South Africa
• The discovery of diamonds and its aftermath
• Race and the construction of the dispensable Other: the 'Everlasting Nay' to the prospect of change.

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ISBN

• 9781868883264
• 1868883264

LCCN

2008556141

OCLC

187297122

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