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Racisms : From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century /

This book is a comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism in the West, the author, a historian shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of socia...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bethencourt, Francisco
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • The Crusades
  • From Greek to Muslim perceptions
  • Christian reconquest
  • Universalism: integration and classification
  • Typologies of humankind and models of discrimination
  • Oceanic exploration
  • Hierarchies of continents and peoples
  • Africans
  • Americans
  • Asians
  • Europeans
  • Colonial societies
  • Ethnic classification
  • Ethnic structure
  • Projects and policies
  • Discrimination and segregation
  • Abolitionism
  • The Theories of race
  • Classifications of humans
  • Scientific racialism
  • Darwin and social evolution
  • Nationalism and beyond
  • The impact of nationalism
  • Global comparisons.