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100 1 $aHannaford, Ivan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96000495
245 10 $aRace :$bthe history of an idea in the West /$cIvan Hannaford.
246 3 $aHistory of an idea in the West
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bWoodrow Wilson Center Press ;$aBaltimore, Md. :$bOrder from the Johns Hopkins University Press,$c1996.
300 $axviii, 448 pages ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-418) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rBernard Crick --$g1.$tIn the Beginning --$g2.$tThe Ancient World --$g3.$tTransitions from Greece to Rome --$g4.$tJews, Christianism, Moors, and Barbarians --$g5.$tMonsters and the Occult --$g6.$tNew Methods, New Worlds, and the Search for Origins --$g7.$tThe First Stage and the Development of an Idea of Race, 1684-1815 --$g8.$tThe Search for Historical and Biological Origins, 1815-1870 --$g9.$tThe Rise of the Race-State and the Invention of Antisemitism, 1870-1900 --$g10.$tRace is All, 1890-1939 --$g11.$tReactions, Retractors, and New Orthodoxies, 1920 to the Present.
520 $aIn Race, The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But, Hannaford shows, race is not a universal idea - not even and the West. It is an idea were a definite pedigree, and Hannaford traces that confused pedigree from Hesiod to the Holocaust and beyond.
520 8 $aHannaford begins by examining the ideas of race supposedly health in the ancient world, contrasting them with the complex social, philosophy, political, and scientific ideas actually held at the time. Through the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods, he critically examines precursors and history, science, and philosophy. Hannaford distinguishes those cultures' ideas of social inclusion, rank, and role from modern ones based on race.
520 8 $aBut he also finds the first traces of modern ideas of race and the protoscences of late medieval cabalism and hermeticism. Following that trail forward, he describes the establishment of modern scientific and philosophical notions of race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows how those notions became popular and pervasive, even among those who claim to be nonracist.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAt a time when new controversies have again raised the question of whether race and social destiny are ineluctably joined as partners, Race: The History of an Idea in the West reveals that one of the partners is a phantom - medieval astrology and physiognomy disguised by pseudoscientific thought. And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements?
520 8 $aThis ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership.
650 0 $aRace awareness$xHistory.
650 0 $aRacism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110368
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