Historicizing humans : deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences /

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A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sera-Shriar, Efram (Editor ), Koditschek, Theodore (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
Physical anthropology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Anthropology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Human evolution > Philosophy > History > 19th century.
Anthropologie physique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Anthropologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Homme > Évolution > Philosophie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SCIENCE > General.
Anthropology.
Human evolution > Philosophy.
Physical anthropology.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar; Chapter 1. Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: Historicizing Prehistoric Humans and Extinct Beasts, 1859-1914 / Chris Manias; Chapter 2. Of Rocks and "Men": The Cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund; Chapter 3. Historicizing Belief: E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, and the Evolution of Religion / Efram Sera-Shriar.
  • Chapter 4. The History of the "Red Man": William Bollaert and the Indigenous People of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves DelgadoChapter 5. Historicizing Humans in Colonial India / Thomas Simpson; Chapter 6. How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race / Gregory Radick; Chapter 7. The Comparative Method in "Shallow Time": Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone; Chapter 8. The Future Evolution of "Man" / Ian Hesketh; Afterword. Historiographical Reflections on the Historicization of Humans in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Theodore Koditschek.
  • NotesBibliography; List of Contributors; Index.

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