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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : race and natural history, 1750-1850
- Title
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : race and natural history, 1750-1850 / edited by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 263 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : brief history of Blumenbach representation / Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach-online / Gerhard Lauer and Heiko Weber -- Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, Lichtenberg and the origins of modern anthropology / Carl Niekerk -- Climate change and creolization in French natural history, 1750-1795 / E.C. Spary -- Blumenbach's collection of human skulls / Wolfgang Böker -- Blumenbach's theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind / Thomas Junker -- A defence of human rights : Blumenbach on albinism / Renato G. Mazzolini -- Blumenbach's race science in the light of Christian supersessionism / Terence Keel -- The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl : quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races, 1750-1850 / Robert J. Richards -- Ethnographic exploration in the Blumenbachian tradition / Peter Hanns Reill -- The rise of paleontology and the historicization of nature : Blumenbach and Deluc / John H. Zammito -- The roots of scientific racism and Huxley's rule / Nicolaas Rupke -- Appendix: biographical sketch of Blumenbach.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7229
- ISBN
- 9781138738423
- 1138738425
- LCCN
- 2018005205
- 40028385018
- OCLC
- 991339791
- Title
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : race and natural history, 1750-1850 / edited by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicineRoutledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Rupke, Nicolaas A., editor.Lauer, Gerhard, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028385018
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7229