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Dark vanishings : discourse on the extinction of primitive races, 1800-1930 /
Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, acceler...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. -- from back cover |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780801468681 080146868X 0801468671 9780801468674 1336207876 9781336207875 |