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Europe's Indians : producing racial difference, 1500-1900 / Vanita Seth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seth, Vanita, 1968-
- Series:
- Politics, history, and culture.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian diaspora--Public opinion--Europe.
- East Indian diaspora.
- Public opinion--Europe.
- Public opinion.
- East Indian diaspora--Europe--History.
- East Indians--First contact with other peoples.
- East Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity.
- Contents:
- Self and similitude : Renaissance representations of the New World
- "Constructing" individuals and "creating" history: subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
- Traditions of history : mapping India's past
- Of monsters and man : the peculiar history of race.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036858
- 9781283036856
- 1283036851
- 9780822392941
- 0822392941
- OCLC:
- 662619679
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