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A Cultural History of Race
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 61 experts who—drawing on perspectives from...
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Examines 2,500 years of the cultural history of race, from antiquity to the present day.
Examines 2,500 years of the cultural history of race, from antiquity to the present day.
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How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 61 experts who—drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and medical humanities—deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality between antiquity and the present day.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover:
- Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE)
- Middle Ages (800 - 1350)
- Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350 - 1550)
- Reformation and Enlightenment (1550 - 1760)
- Age of Empire and Nation State (1760 - 1920)
- Modern and Genomic Age (1920 – 2000+)
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Definitions of Race; Race, Environment and Culture; Race and Religion; Race and Science; Race and Politics; Race and Ethnicity; Race and Gender; Race and Body; and Anti-Race.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Race is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350519695
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Multiple-component retail product
Date Published: 09 January 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 300 bw illus
Contributors:
- Edited by Marius Turda
- Other Sarah Phillips
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 74.0mm
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 250.0mm
Weight: 2840g
About the Author
Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014); Modernism and Eugenics (2010); The Idea of National Superiority in Central Europe, 1880-1918 (2005), co-author (with Maria Sophia Quine) of Historicizing Race (2018), and the editor of The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries (2015) and Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2018).
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