Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Geraldine Heng is Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (2012), and England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2018). Originally from Singapore, Heng has held the Winton Chair (for 'paradigm-shifting scholarship') at the University of Minnesota. She has received a number of fellowships and grants, and currently holds an ACLS fellowship to begin a new book, Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE. Heng is also Founder and Director of the Global Middle Ages Project: www.globalmiddleages.org. Klappentext This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era. Zusammenfassung This book is for readers who may or may not be familiar with the Middle Ages! but are interested in race and racism! and want to know how far back in time racism begins to appear. The book does for race studies what feminism! queer studies! postcolonial studies! have done to change how we view the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Inventions/Reinventions; 2. State/Nation; 3. War/Empire; 4. Color; 5. World I; 6. World II; 7. World III.

Product details

• Authors: Geraldine Heng, Geraldine (University of Texas Heng, Heng Geraldine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108422789
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42278-9
• No. of pages: 504
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, History and Archaeology