Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940 / Gregory D. Smithers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Social aspects.

History.

Science--Social aspects.

White people--Race identity.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

Frontier and pioneer life--United States.

Frontier and pioneer life.

White people--Race identity--United States--History--19th century.

White people.

Science--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Science.

Sex--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Sex.

Australia--Race relations--History--19th century.

Australia.

Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.

White people--Race identity--Australia--History--19th century.

Science--Social aspects--Australia--History--19th century.

Sex--Social aspects--Australia--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 494 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the book's original publication, this completely revised edition includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism, Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia"-- Provided by publisher.

"Gregory D. Smithers offers a sociohistorical tour-de-force of the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within the process of settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940.

ISBN:

9780803295919

080329591X

OCLC:

962233019