The Origins of Racism in the West

Herausgeber: Eliav-Feldon, Miriam; Ziegler, Joseph; Isaac, Benjamin

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Produktbeschreibung

Is it possible to speak of western racism before the eighteenth century? In this book, leading historians argue that racism can be traced back to the attitudes of the ancient Greeks towards their Persian enemies and that it was adopted, adjusted and re-formulated by Europeans right through until the dawn of the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781107687264
• ISBN-10: 1107687268
• Artikelnr.: 39343926

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Benjamin Isaac, Joseph Ziegler and Miriam Eliav-Feldon; 2.
Racism: a rationalization of prejudice in Greece and Rome Benjamin Isaac;
3. The invention of Persia in classical Athens H. A. Shapiro; 4. Racism,
color symbolism, and color prejudice David Goldenberg; 5. Early Christian
universalism and modern forms of racism Denise Kimber Buell; 6.
Illustrating ethnicity in the Middle Ages Robert Bartlett; 7. Proto-racial
thought in medieval science Peter Biller; 8. Physiognomy, science, and
proto-racism 1200-1500 Joseph Ziegler; 9. Noble dogs, noble blood: the
invention of the concept of race in the late Middle Ages Charles de
Miramon; 10. The carnal knowing of a coloured body. Sleeping with Arabs and
Blacks in the European imagination, 1300-1550 Valentin Groebner; 11. Was
there race before modernity? The example of 'Jewish' blood in late-medieval
Spain David Nirenberg; 12. Religion and race: Protestant and Catholic
discourses on Jewish conversions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia; 13. Vagrants or vermin? Attitudes towards Gypsies in
Early-Modern Europe Miriam Eliav-Feldon; 14. The peopling of the New World:
ethnos, race and empire in the Early-Modern world Anthony Pagden; 15.
Demons, stars, and the imagination: the Early-Modern body in the Tropics
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.