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Historicizing Humans : Deep Time, Evolution, and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : from the beginning : human history theories in nineteenth-Century british sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar
- Contemporaries of the cave bear and the woolly rhinoceros : historicizing prehistoric humans and extinct beasts, 1859-1914 / Chris Manias
- Of rocks and "men" : the cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
- Historicizing belief : E. B. Tylor, primitive culture, and the evolution of religion / Efram Sera-Shriar
- The history of the "red man" : William Bollaert and the indigenous people of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves Delgado
- Historicizing humans in colonial India / Thomas Simpson
- How and why Darwin got emotional about race / Gregory Radick
- The comparative method in "shallow time" : Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone
- The future evolution of "man" / Ian Hesketh
- Afterword : historiographical reflections on the historicization of humans in nineteenth-century British sciences / Theodore Koditschek.