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Race, Science, and the Nation - Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany (Paperback)
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Race, Science, and the Nation - Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the
German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the
Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the
newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields - philology,
archeology and anthropology - interacted, breaking down languages,
unearthing artifacts, measuring skulls and recording the customs of
"savage" analogues. This was a decidedly national process:
disciplines institutionalized on national levels, and their
findings seen to have deep implications for the origins of the
nation and its "racial composition." However, this operated within
broader currents. The wide spread of material and novelty of the
methods meant that these approaches formed connections across
Europe and beyond, even while national rivalries threatened to tear
these networks apart. Race, Science and the Nation follows this
tension, offering a simultaneously comparative, cross-national and
multi-disciplinary history of the scholarly reconstruction of
European prehistory. As well as showing how interaction between
disciplines was key to their formation, it makes arguments of keen
relevance to studies of racial thought and nationalism. It shows
these researches often worked against attempts to present the
chaotic multi-layered ancient eras as times of mythic origin.
Instead, they argued that the modern nations of Europe were not
only diverse, but were products of long processes of social
development and "racial" fusion. This book therefore brings to
light a formerly unstudied motif of nineteenth-century national
consciousness, showing how intellectuals in the era of
nation-building themselves drove an idea of their nations being
"constructed" from a useable past.
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