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The Races of Europe - Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Races of Europe - Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book explores a vital but neglected chapter in the histories
of nationalism, racism and science. It is the first comprehensive
study of the transnational scientific community that in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries attempted to classify
Europe's biological races. Anthropological race classifiers
produced parallel geographies, histories and hierarchies of
European peoples that were crucial to the creation of national
identities and to the overtly political race discourses of eugenics
and popular racist ideologues. They lent nationalism the invaluable
prestige of natural science, and traced the histories, conflicts
and relationships of 'national races' back into prehistory. Racial
national character stereotypes meanwhile supported competing
political ideologies. The book examines the interplay between
class, gender and national identity narratives and the tensions and
interactions between the scientific and political agendas of
classifiers. Within the elaborate transnational networks of
scientific communities, for example, they had to reconcile
competing national narratives.
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