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This text offers a provocative explanation of the force and place of race in modern history, showing that race and nation have a linked history. The author seeks to show the close historical connection of race and nation as each interrelates with the other in shaping and carrying social and institutional practices over many centuries.

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"""Who do We Think We Are? makes a brief foray into ancient cultures to show that they lacked any idea of 'race' in the world's modern sense, and then goes on to show that 'racial difference' is a politically useful fiction that has spread, since 1500, along with the equally novel idea of nationalism"".-- Publishers Weekly"

Who do We Think We Are? makes a brief foray into ancient cultures to show that they lacked any idea of 'race' in the world's modern sense, and then goes on to show that 'racial difference' is a politically useful fiction that has spread, since 1500, along with the equally novel idea of nationalism .<p>-- Publishers Weekly

""Who do We Think We Are? makes a brief foray into ancient cultures to show that they lacked any idea of 'race' in the world's modern sense, and then goes on to show that 'racial difference' is a politically useful fiction that has spread, since 1500, along with the equally novel idea of nationalism"".-- Publishers Weekly

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Philip Yale Nicholson

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