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Idea of Race in Science

Great Britain, 1800-1960

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  • © 1982

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Authors:
  1. Nancy Stepan

    1. Department of History, Yale University, USA

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Race and the Return of the Great Chain of Being, 1800–50

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 1-19

  3. ‘Race is Everything’: The Growth of Racial Determinism, 1830–50

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 20-46

  4. Evolution and Race: An Incomplete Revolution

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 47-82

  5. Race after Darwin: The World of the Physical Anthropologists

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 83-110

  6. Eugenics and Race, 1900–25

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 111-139

  7. A Period of Doubt: Race Science before the Second World War

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 140-169

  8. After the War: A New Science and Old Controversies

    • Nancy Stepan
    Pages 170-189

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 190-230
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Yale University, USA

    Nancy Stepan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Idea of Race in Science

  • Book Subtitle: Great Britain, 1800-1960

  • Authors: Nancy Stepan

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05452-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-05452-7Published: 18 June 1982

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 230

  • Topics: Cultural Studies

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