Labeling people
French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848
by Martin S. Staum
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During the turbulent era of revolution and industrialization in nineteenth-century France, scholars searched for methods to limit social upheaval by discerning individual dispositions to intelligence and good character. They also sought to prove the superiority of Europeans to other “races.” In Labeling People Martin Staum explores the use of geography, phrenology, and ethnology to classify people. Early nineteenth-century concepts of racial inequality prefigured the imperialist “associationist” discourse of the Third Republic. Such ideas could justify European tutelage of “civilizable” peoples and provide an open invitation to dominate and exploit the “uncivilizable.”
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Colonies, Histoire, History, Imperialism, Impérialisme, Learned institutions and societies, Phrenology, Physical anthropology, Racism, Racism in anthropology, Racisme, Sciences sociales, Société de géographie de Paris, Société ethnologique de Paris, Société phrénologique de Paris, Sociétés savantes et instituts, Ethnology, france, Social sciences, Société de géographie (France)Times
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Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848
2003, McGill-Queen's University Press
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0773571248 9780773571242
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Labeling people: French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848
2003, McGill-Queen's University Press
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