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The Perfection of Nature - Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (Paperback, 1)
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The Perfection of Nature - Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (Paperback, 1)
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A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were
shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. The Renaissance is
celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves
to greatness, but there is a dark undercurrent to this feted era of
history. The same men and women who offered profound advancements
in European understanding of the human condition-and laid the
foundations of the Scientific Revolution-were also obsessed with
controlling that condition and the wider natural world. Tracing
early modern artisanal practice, Mackenzie Cooley shows how the
idea of race and theories of inheritance developed through animal
breeding in the shadow of the Spanish Empire. While one strand of
the Renaissance celebrated a liberal view of human potential,
another limited it by biology, reducing man to beast and prince to
stud. "Race," Cooley explains, first referred to animal stock honed
through breeding. To those who invented the concept, race was not
inflexible, but the fragile result of reproductive work. As the
Spanish empire expanded, the concept of race moved from nonhuman to
human animals. Cooley reveals how, as the dangerous idea of
controlled reproduction was brought to life again and again, a
rich, complex, and ever-shifting language of race and breeding was
born. Adding nuance and historical context to discussions of race
and human and animal relations, The Perfection of Nature provides a
close reading of undertheorized notions of generation and its
discontents in the more-than-human world.
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