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Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America.
Racial thought at the close of the 18th century differed radically from that of the 19th century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford Scholarship Online,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Racial thought at the close of the 18th century differed radically from that of the 19th century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and continuously subject to change. While historians have documented aspects of 18th century racial thought, this is the first book to identify how this thinking informs the figurative language in the literature of this crucial period. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0199313504 9780199313501 0199313512 9780199313518 0199350728 9780199350728 9781306082013 1306082013 |