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Author: Richard McMahon
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9781496205827
ISBN 10: 1496205820
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 01 August 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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A rich collection about the rise of physical anthropology, ethnology, and race science in the 19th century, National Races emphasizes the importance of placing these disciplines in a transnational, national, and imperial context. By highlighting forgotten mid-19th-century debates about mono- and polygenism, and employing case studies focused on Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Korea, and Yugoslavia to decenter the Western European core-focused narratives of these disciplines' emergence, the volume recovers a rich set of liberal, transnational, and local ideas in their development, thus challenging teleological narratives of a straight road from turn-of-the-century craniometry and serology to the eugenic practices and exclusionary biological racism of interwar fascist regimes. -A. Vari, Choice -- A. Vari * Choice * In important ways, both implicitly and explicitly, Richard McMahon demonstrates that the fear of immigration and anti-immigration policies in Europe and the United States are tied to previous fears and anxiety about the construction of national races. McMahon provides an extensive overview and impeccable research to describe the transnational science of racial classification during a pivotal century in the modern era. -Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University -- Lee Baker National Races is innovative and promising-and fills a significant gap in the international literature. It builds on studies of physical anthropology, nationalism (or national identity politics), imperialism, modernity, and warfare and attempts to bring these into connection. There is every reason to believe that the book will be a standard work in an interdisciplinary and transnational field of studies that has hardly been circumscribed and never been covered in any detail. -Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany -- Han F. Vermeulen
National Races is innovative and promising-and fills a significant gap in the international literature. It builds on studies of physical anthropology, nationalism (or national identity politics), imperialism, modernity, and warfare and attempts to bring these into connection. There is every reason to believe that the book will be a standard work in an interdisciplinary and transnational field of studies that has hardly been circumscribed and never been covered in any detail. -Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany -- Han F. Vermeulen In important ways, both implicitly and explicitly, Richard McMahon demonstrates that the fear of immigration and anti-immigration policies in Europe and the United States are tied to previous fears and anxiety about the construction of national races. McMahon provides an extensive overview and impeccable research to describe the transnational science of racial classification during a pivotal century in the modern era. -Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University -- Lee Baker A rich collection about the rise of physical anthropology, ethnology, and race science in the 19th century, National Races emphasizes the importance of placing these disciplines in a transnational, national, and imperial context. By highlighting forgotten mid-19th-century debates about mono- and polygenism, and employing case studies focused on Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Korea, and Yugoslavia to decenter the Western European core-focused narratives of these disciplines' emergence, the volume recovers a rich set of liberal, transnational, and local ideas in their development, thus challenging teleological narratives of a straight road from turn-of-the-century craniometry and serology to the eugenic practices and exclusionary biological racism of interwar fascist regimes. -A. Vari, Choice -- A. Vari * Choice *
National Races is innovative and promising-and fills a significant gap in the international literature. It builds on studies of physical anthropology, nationalism (or national identity politics), imperialism, modernity, and warfare and attempts to bring these into connection. There is every reason to believe that the book will be a standard work in an interdisciplinary and transnational field of studies that has hardly been circumscribed and never been covered in any detail. -Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany -- Han F. Vermeulen In important ways, both implicitly and explicitly, Richard McMahon demonstrates that the fear of immigration and anti-immigration policies in Europe and the United States are tied to previous fears and anxiety about the construction of national races. McMahon provides an extensive overview and impeccable research to describe the transnational science of racial classification during a pivotal century in the modern era. -Lee Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University -- Lee Baker
Author Information
Richard McMahon is a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839–1939.
