An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species / Samuel Stanhope Smith; Winthrop D. Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, author.

Contributor:

Jordan, Winthrop D., editor.

Series:

John Harvard Library

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Miscellanea.

Anthropology.

Human skin color.

Monogenism and polygenism.

Local Subjects:

Anthropology--Miscellanea.

Human skin color.

Monogenism and polygenism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION / Jordan, Winthrop D.

NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OF RACE

NOTE ON THE TEXT

AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE VARIETY OF COMPLEXION AND FIGURE IN THE HUMAN SPECIES

ADVERTISEMENT

ESSAY, ϑc

ON THE VARIETY OF COMPLEXION, FIGURE, ϑc. IN THE HUMAN SPECIES

OF CLIMATE

STATE OF SOCIETY, AND THE HABITS OF LIVING

ADDENDA

REMARKS ON CERTAIN STRICTURES MADE ON THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS ESSAY / White, Charles

STRICTURES ON LORD KAIMS' DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINAL DIVERSITY OF MANKIND

APPENDIX

GUIDE TO SMITH'S REFERENCES. INDEX

GUIDE TO SMITH'S REFERENCES

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-86633-9

OCLC:

1013941227