Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science.
Traces the genealogy of European representations of difference from the discovery of the New World through the period when racial theorists were deliberately subjecting culture to the measuring instruments and evolutionary gradations of racial science.
Vanita Seth is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World 19 2. "Constructing" Individuals and "Creating" History: Subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau 61 3. Traditions of History: Mapping India's Past 119 4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race 173 Epilogue 227 Notes 233 Bibliography 259 Index 279
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World 19 2. "Constructing" Individuals and "Creating" History: Subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau 61 3. Traditions of History: Mapping India's Past 119 4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race 173 Epilogue 227 Notes 233 Bibliography 259 Index 279
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