Nobility And The Making Of Race In Eighteenth Century Britain

Author : Tim McInerney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Race relations
ISBN : 1350350494

Get Book

Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Tim McInerney Pdf

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.

Author : Tim McInerney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350346369

Get Book

Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Tim McInerney Pdf

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.

Author : Tim Mc Inerney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350346383

Get Book

Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Tim Mc Inerney Pdf

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.

Author : John Cannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0521335663

Get Book

Aristocratic Century by John Cannon Pdf

Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.

Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415158958

Get Book

The Island Race by Kathleen Wilson Pdf

Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, this innovative study takes the idea of the English as an 'Island Race' and shows how this concept is key to understanding British imperial history in the eighteenth century.

Author : Albert Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Nobility
ISBN : LCCN:lc67006156

Get Book

The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century by Albert Goodwin Pdf

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:933102219

Get Book

A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Pdf

Author : David Kuchta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520214934

Get Book

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity by David Kuchta Pdf

In 1666 King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire.

Author : Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815827

Get Book

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe by Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe Pdf

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789

Get Book

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X006174998

Get Book

Uncommon Sense by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ali Rattansi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192571816

Get Book

Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi Pdf

There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are a variety of racisms at play, and it is necessary to distinguish between issues such as individual prejudice, and systemic racisms which entrench racialiazed inequalities over time. This Very Short Introduction explores the history of racial ideas and a wide range of racisms - biological, cultural, colour-blind, and structural - and illuminates issues that have been the subject of recent debates. Is Islamophobia a form of racism? Is there a new antisemitism? Why has whiteness become an important source of debate? What is Intersectionality? What is unconscious or implicit bias, and what is its importance in understanding racial discrimination? Ali Rattansi tackles these questions, and also shows why African Americans and other ethnic minorities in the USA and Europe continue to suffer from discrimination today that results in ongoing disadvantage in these white dominant societies. Finally he explains why there has been a resurgence of national populist and far-right movements and explores their implications for the future of racism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : PRNC:32101068573029

Get Book

Areopagitica by John Milton Pdf

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

Get Book

Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 159540614X

Get Book

The Ancien Regime by Charles Kingsley Pdf

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be said, in drawing a just and complete picture of the Ancien Regime in France. The passages inserted between brackets, which bear on religious matters, were accordingly not spoken at the Royal Institution. But more. It was impossible for me in these Lectures, to bring forward as fully as I could have wished, the contrast between the continental nations and England, whether now, or during the eighteenth century. But that contrast cannot be too carefully studied at the present moment. In proportion as it is seen and understood, will the fear of revolution (if such exists) die out among the wealthier classes; and the wish for it (if such exists) among the poorer; and a large extension of the suffrage will be looked on as - what it actually is - a safe and harmless concession to the wishes - and, as I hold, to the just rights - of large portion of the British nation.