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  1. Historicizing humans
    deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences
    Contributor: Sera-Shriar, Efram (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.

    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar -- Chapter 1. Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: Historicizing... more

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    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar -- Chapter 1. Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: Historicizing Prehistoric Humans and Extinct Beasts, 1859-1914 / Chris Manias -- Chapter 2. Of Rocks and "Men": The Cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund -- Chapter 3. Historicizing Belief: E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, and the Evolution of Religion / Efram Sera-Shriar -- Chapter 4. The History of the "Red Man": William Bollaert and the Indigenous People of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves Delgado -- Chapter 5. Historicizing Humans in Colonial India / Thomas Simpson -- Chapter 6. How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race / Gregory Radick -- Chapter 7. The Comparative Method in "Shallow Time": Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone -- Chapter 8. The Future Evolution of "Man" / Ian Hesketh -- Afterword. Historiographical Reflections on the Historicization of Humans in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Theodore Koditschek -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Sera-Shriar, Efram (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822986072
    Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century
    Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
    Subjects: Anthropology-Great Britain-History-19th century; Anthropology ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century; Anthropology-Great Britain-History-19th century; Electronic books; Anthropology; Human evolution; Physical anthropology; Great Britain; History; 1800-1899
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 326 Seiten)