Race Makers - A History of the Enlightenments Most Dangerous Legacy

A gripping reassessment of the Enlightenment, exploring how leading thinkers who championed liberty also shaped modern racial ideologies - tracing their lives across empires, plantations, and palaces in a powerful story of ideas, power and exclusion.

Info autore

Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of Humanities at Wesleyan University. A writer-scholar fascinated by the eighteenth century, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, TIME, Paris Review, El País and The Wall Street Journal. Curran is the author and editor of five books, including Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, and, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Who’s Black and Why?.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew S. Curran, Curran Andrew S.
• Editore: Saqi Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9781908906632
• ISBN: 978-1-908906-63-2
• Pagine: 512
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social and cultural history, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Political campaigning and advertising, Biography: historical, political and military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Constitution: government & the state