Racisms : : From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century / / Francisco Bethencourt.

Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 71 halftones. 18 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Crusades
  • Chapter 1. From Greek to Muslim Perceptions
  • Chapter 2. Christian Reconquest
  • Chapter 3. Universalism: Integration and Classification
  • Chapter 4. Typologies of Humankind and Models of Discrimination
  • Part II. Oceanic Exploration
  • Chapter 5. Hierarchies of Continents and Peoples
  • Chapter 6. Africans
  • Chapter 7. Americans
  • Chapter 8. Asians
  • Chapter 9. Europeans
  • Part III. Colonial Societies
  • Chapter 10. Ethnic Classification
  • Chapter 11. Ethnic Structure
  • Chapter 12. Projects and Policies
  • Chapter 13. Discrimination and Segregation
  • Chapter 14. Abolitionism
  • Part IV. The Theories of Race
  • Chapter 15. Classifications of Humans
  • Chapter 16. Scientific Racialism
  • Chapter 17. Darwin and Social Evolution
  • Part V. Nationalism and Beyond
  • Chapter 18. The Impact of Nationalism
  • Chapter 19. Global Comparisons
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Index