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The history of White people

text The history of White people

Painter, Nell Irvin.

Summary
Historian Painter centers her momentous study of racial classification on the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the United States in the 18th century, when thinkers led by Ralph Waldo Emerson strove to explain the rapid p... Read more
Contents
Introduction -- Greeks and Scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people "caucasian" -- Germaine de Stal͡'s G... Read more
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Description
xii, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher
W.W. Norton 2010
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 305.8 PAI in Adult Non-fiction Available

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