Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34639-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34639-0 (ISBN)
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Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain focuses on 18th-century Britain and Ireland at a time when race theory as we know it today was steadily emerging in the realm of natural philosophy to examine the structural relationship between nobility and race.
This ground-breaking book examines texts from the fields of naturalism, political philosophy, medicine, and colonial venture, as well as interrogating works of drama and literature, in order to track how climate-based understandings of human variety at this time became increasingly imbued with noble traditions of genealogical purity and hierarchies of descent. This process, the book argues, allowed British naturalists and wider society to understand global populations according to an already familiar pattern of genealogical inequality, and offered the proponents of race theory a ready made model of natural supremacy.
In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Tim McInerney explains why nobility and race developed in the way they did and how the premise of each promoted a certain idea of superiority. The result is a necessary in-depth understanding of how genealogical exclusivity works as a power strategy, vital to students and scholars alike.
This ground-breaking book examines texts from the fields of naturalism, political philosophy, medicine, and colonial venture, as well as interrogating works of drama and literature, in order to track how climate-based understandings of human variety at this time became increasingly imbued with noble traditions of genealogical purity and hierarchies of descent. This process, the book argues, allowed British naturalists and wider society to understand global populations according to an already familiar pattern of genealogical inequality, and offered the proponents of race theory a ready made model of natural supremacy.
In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Tim McInerney explains why nobility and race developed in the way they did and how the premise of each promoted a certain idea of superiority. The result is a necessary in-depth understanding of how genealogical exclusivity works as a power strategy, vital to students and scholars alike.
Tim McInerney is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish civilisation at Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint Denis., France.
Introduction
1. The Race Myth in Retrospect
2. Performing Nobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. Human Hierarchy and the Great Chain of Being
4. The Noble Body in Ethno-national and Medical Discourse
5. Civilised Anatomies in Eighteenth-Century Human Variety Theory
6. Creating a Global Nobility: The Rise of Genealogical Race Theory
7. Ireland: A Nation of Nobilities
8. The South Seas: Laboratory of the Noble Physique
9. 'Royal Slaves': Abolitionism and the Fantasy of Slave Nobility
10. Noble Race in a Time of Revolution
Conclusion: How Nobility Shaped the Concept of Race
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-34639-X / 135034639X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-34639-0 / 9781350346390 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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