Historicizing humans : deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences / edited by Efram Sera-Shriar ; with an afterword by Theodore Koditschek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sera-Shriar, Efram, editor.

Koditschek, Theodore, writer of afterword.

JSTOR (Online Service)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical anthropology--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical anthropology.

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

Anthropology.

Human evolution--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Human evolution.

Human evolution--Philosophy.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 326 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the mid-nineteenth century, new lights-Darwinism, prehistoric archaeology, encounters with the full diversity of the world's peoples-transformed understandings of human origins and development in ways that we are still reckoning with. The stimulating essays in this volume reveal the bewildering mixture of science, religion, racism, universalism and: sheer speculation displayed as new horizons opened up." "Historicizing Humans expertly explores how colonial contexts, print culture, and religious commitments influenced scientific theories of human history and race during the nineteenth century. The book will be of great interest to historians of the human and natural sciences as well as scholars exploring how-ideas and knowledge traveled across Britain's imperial spaces. A fascinating and valuable volume." Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: From the beginning: human history theories in Nineteenth-Century British sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar

Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: historicizing prehistoric humans and extinct beasts, 1859-1914 / Chris Manias

Of rocks and "men": the cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund

Historicizing belief: E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, and the evolution of religion / Efram Sera-Shriar

The history of the "Red Man": William Bollaert and the indigenous people of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves Delgado

Historicizing humans in Colonial India / Thomas Simpson

How and why Darwin got emotional about race / Gregory Radick

The Comparative Method in "Shallow Time": Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone

The future evolution of "man" / Ian Hesketh

Afterword: historiographical reflections on the historicization of humans in Nineteenth-Century British sciences / Theodore Koditschek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780822986072

0822986078

Publisher Number:

99989843922

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.