Taming Cannibals - Race and the Victorians

Klappentext In Taming Cannibals! Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians! the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or! at best! could only approximate! yet... Zusammenfassung In Taming Cannibals! Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians! the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or! at best! could only approximate! yet...

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brantlinger, Jason M. Colby
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2011
• EAN: 9780801450198
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5019-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History