Racisms : From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century / Francisco Bethencourt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bethencourt, Francisco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Racism--History.

Racism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources.Racisms focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. Bethencourt looks at different forms of racism, and explores instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, while analyzing how practices of discrimination and segregation were defended.This is a major interdisciplinary work that moves away from ideas of linear or innate racism and recasts our understanding of interethnic relations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Crusades

Chapter 1. From Greek to Muslim Perceptions

Chapter 2. Christian Reconquest

Chapter 3. Universalism: Integration and Classification

Chapter 4. Typologies of Humankind and Models of Discrimination

Part II. Oceanic Exploration

Chapter 5. Hierarchies of Continents and Peoples

Chapter 6. Africans

Chapter 7. Americans

Chapter 8. Asians

Chapter 9. Europeans

Part III. Colonial Societies

Chapter 10. Ethnic Classification

Chapter 11. Ethnic Structure

Chapter 12. Projects and Policies

Chapter 13. Discrimination and Segregation

Chapter 14. Abolitionism

Part IV. The Theories of Race

Chapter 15. Classifications of Humans

Chapter 16. Scientific Racialism

Chapter 17. Darwin and Social Evolution

Part V. Nationalism and Beyond

Chapter 18. The Impact of Nationalism

Chapter 19. Global Comparisons

Conclusions

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780691169750

0691169756

9781400848416

1400848415

OCLC:

862372138