Divine variations : how Christian thought became racial science / Terence Keel.
Divine variations : how Christian thought became racial science / Terence Keel.
Divine variations : how Christian thought became racial science / Terence Keel.
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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G 2020/1039
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English
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x, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Impure thoughts : Johann Blumenbach and the birth of racial science -- Superseding Christian truth : the quiet revolution of nineteenth-century American science of race -- The ghost of Christian creationism : racial dispositions and Progressive Era public health research -- Noah's mongrel children :...
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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California
Date Published
[2018]
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Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He argues that, instead of a rupture...
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Divine variations : how Christian thought became racial science / Terence Keel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/1039
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74VKaZy5b8od
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZy5b8od
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ISBN
9780804795401 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0804795401 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
DDC
305.8001
MMS ID
991024293917002626
