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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach race and natural history, 1750-1850 / edited by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer.
| Other author | Rupke, Nicolaas A. |
| Other author | Lauer, Gerhard. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; 33 |
| 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 B©œker -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018005205 |
| ISBN | 9781138738423 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | ebook |