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Bodies Complexioned - Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 1600-1750 (Paperback)
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Bodies Complexioned - Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 1600-1750 (Paperback)
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Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the
shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate
systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups.
Making use of an array of sources, this book examines how early
modern English people understood bodily difference. It demonstrates
that individuals' distinctive features were considered innate, even
as discrete populations were believed to have characteristics in
common, and challenges the idea that the humoral theory of bodily
composition was incompatible with visceral inequality or racism.
While 'race' had not assumed its modern valence, and 'racial'
ideologies were still to come, such typecasting nonetheless had
mundane, lasting consequences. Grounded in humoral physiology, and
Christian universalism notwithstanding, bodily prejudices inflected
social stratification, domestic politics, sectarian division and
international relations. -- .
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