Vanita Seth

Europe's Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science.

Produktdetails

• Politics, History, and Culture
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347644
• ISBN-10: 0822347644
• Artikelnr.: 30362435

Autorenporträt

Vanita Seth is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World 19
2. "Constructing" Individuals and "Creating" History: Subjectivity in
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau 61
3. Traditions of History: Mapping India's Past 119
4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race 173
Epilogue 227
Notes 233
Bibliography 259
Index 279