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Title

Labeling people : French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848 / Martin S. Staum.

Author

Staum, Martin S.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

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Description

xiv, 245 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"During the turbulent era of revolution and industrialization in nineteenth-century France, scholars searched for methods to distinguish individual dispositions to intelligence and good character. They also sought to prove the superiority of Europeans. In Labeling People Martin S. Staum explores the use of geography, phrenology, and ethnology to classify people, showing how early nineteenth-century concepts of racial inequality prefigured the imperialist associationist discourse of the Third Republic. Such ideas justified European tutelage of 'civilizable' peoples and provided an open invitation to dominate and exploit the 'uncivilizable.'"--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36.

Subject

• France > Histoire > 19e siècle
• France > History > 19th century
• Imperialism > History > 19th century
• Impérialisme > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Learned institutions and societies > Paris > History > 19th century
• Phrenology > France > History > 19th century
• Physical anthropology > France > History > 19th century
• Racism > France > History > 19th century
• Racism in anthropology > France > History > 19th century
• Racisme > France > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Sciences sociales > France > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Société de géographie de Paris > Histoire
• Société de géographie de Paris > History
• Société ethnologique de Paris > Histoire
• Société ethnologique de Paris > History
• Société phrénologique de Paris > Histoire
• Société phrénologique de Paris > History
• Sociétés savantes et instituts > Paris > Histoire > 19e siècle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Bell Curve and the Nineteenth-Century Organic Society -- 2. The Facial Angle, Physiognomy, and Racial Theory -- 3. The Ambivalence of Phrenology -- 4. Human Geography, "Race," and Empire -- 5. Ethnology and the Civilizability of "Races" -- 6. Constructing the "Other" in the Early Social Sciences -- App. 1. Active Members of the Societe phrenologique de Paris or supporters of phrenology -- App. 2. Societe de geographie de Paris Founders -- App. 3. Members of the Societe ethnologique de Paris.

ISBN

0773525807 (bound)

LCCN

^^2004478206

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Harvard Library