Science, race relations and resistance : Britain, 1870-1914 / Douglas Lorimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorimer, Douglas A.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people.

History.

Asians.

Minorities.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Great Britain--Race relations--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Minorities--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Asians--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Black people--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 344 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the 'colour question'. It offers a revisionist account of race in science, and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0719033578

9780719033575

OCLC:

833341872

Publisher Number:

99956667543