Labeling people : French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848 / Martin S. Staum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staum, Martin S.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Société phrénologique de Paris--History.

Société phrénologique de Paris.

Société de géographie (France)--History.

Société de géographie (France).

Société ethnologique de Paris--History.

Société ethnologique de Paris.

Physical anthropology--France--History--19th century.

Physical anthropology.

Phrenology--France--History--19th century.

Phrenology.

Racism--France--History--19th century.

Racism.

Learned institutions and societies--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Learned institutions and societies.

Racism in anthropology--France--History--19th century.

Racism in anthropology.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

France--Colonies--History--19th century.

France.

Physical Description:

xiv, 245 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While previous studies have contrasted the relative optimism of middle-class social scientists before 1848 with a later period of concern for national decline and racial degeneration, Staum demonstrates that the earlier learned societies were also fearful of turmoil at home and interested in adventure abroad. Both geographers and ethnologists created concepts of fundamental "racial" inequality that prefigured the imperialist "associationist" discourse of the Third Republic, believing that European tutelage would guide "civilizable" peoples, and providing an open invitation to dominate and exploit the "uncivilizable."

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

The Bell Curve and the Nineteenth-Century Organic Society

The Facial Angle, Physiognomy, and Racial Theory

The Ambivalence of Phrenology

Human Geography, “Race,” and Empire

Ethnology and the Civilizability of “Races”

Constructing the “Other” in the Early Social Sciences

Appendices

Active Members of the Société phrénologique de Paris or supporters of phrenology

Société de géographie de Paris Founders

Members of the Société ethnologique de Paris

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86128-X

9786612861284

0-7735-7124-8

OCLC:

929120747