Europe''s Indians - Producing Racial Difference, 15001900

Informationen zum Autor Vanita Seth is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. Klappentext Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science. Zusammenfassung A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World 19 2. "Constructing" Individuals and "Creating" History: Subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau 61 3. Traditions of History: Mapping India's Past 119 4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race 173 Epilogue 227 Notes 233 Bibliography 259 Index 279

Product details

• Authors: Vanita Seth
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780822347644
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research