The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839-1939

by Richard McMahon

This book explores a vital but neglected chapter in the histories of nationalism, racism and science. It is the first comprehensive study of the transnational scientific community that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries attempted to classify Europe's biological races. Anthropological race classifiers produced parallel geographies, histories and hierarchies of European peoples that were crucial to the creation of national identities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230363199
• ISBN13: 9780230363199
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 6.4"