Races of Europe : construction of national identities in the social sciences, 1839-1939 / Richard Mcmahon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mcmahon, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Europe.

Ethnology.

Europe.

Physical Description:

466 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Rediscovering a Lost Science; Methodological Approach; Content of the Book; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Networks, Methods and Narratives; Chapter 2: Race Classifiers and Anthropologists; Geographical Analysis Methods; The Interdisciplinary Alliance; Ethnology; Anthropology; Breakup of the Positivist Interdisciplinary Alliance; The Science-Politics Alliance; Politics and Positivism; The Return of the Right; The Transnational Alliance; The Geography of Power; An Expanding Cosmopolitan Community.

Germany Overtakes FranceGeographical Disintegration of Race Science; A German Sonderweg?; The Influence of Geographical Context; The East-West Divide; The Peripheral East; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: How Classification Worked; The Science of Classification; Description Versus Quantification; A Political Science; The Struggle to Maintain the Central Tradition; The Legacy of Antiquarianism; Monogenism and Philology; Expelling the Linguists; Prising Ethnicity and Race Apart; The Scientific Rejection of Race; New Volkisch Race Sciences; Deniker and Mendel; Conclusion; Notes.

Classification FracturesAnthropology Embittered: The Franco-Prussian War; Brachycephalic Asian Aryans; The Nordic Strikes Back; Nordicist Race History; Blond Internationalism; Nordicism vs. Nationalism; Expansion and Diversity: The Mediterranean, Deniker and Civilisation; Italy's Mediterranean Narrative; Deniker's Eastern European Races; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Peripheral Case Studies; Chapter 5: The Irish Dilemma: Nineteenth-Century Science and Celtic Identity; Prestigious International Celts; The Dilemma; Mediterranean Civilisation; Black Kelts and Mediterraneans.

Celtic Romance and Anglo-Saxonism French Celtic Synthesis; Anglo-Irish Race Fusion; Kymri-Kimmerians; Eastern Ethnocentrism and Purity; Conclusion; Bibliography239; Chapter 6: Poland: Scientific Independence and Nordicism; Poland's International Connections; Politicised Race Classification; The Nordicisation of Polish Anthropology; Lwów Nordicism; The Easteuropean; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Between International Science and Nationalism: Interwar Romanian Race Science; A Weak, Divided Discipline; Foreign Models; French Celts and Synthesis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-452) and index.

ISBN:

0230363199

9780230363199

OCLC:

945231393