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• catalog abstract ""In Race, The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But, Hannaford shows, race is not a universal idea - not even and the West. It is an idea were a definite pedigree, and Hannaford traces that confused pedigree from Hesiod to the Holocaust and beyond." "Hannaford begins by examining the ideas of race supposedly health in the ancient world, contrasting them with the complex social, philosophy, political, and scientific ideas actually held at the time. Through the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods, he critically examines precursors and history, science, and philosophy. Hannaford distinguishes those cultures' ideas of social inclusion, rank, and role from modern ones based on race. But he also finds the first traces of modern ideas of race and the protoscences of late medieval cabalism and hermeticism. Following that trail forward, he describes the establishment of modern scientific and philosophical notions of race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows how those notions became popular and pervasive, even among those who claim to be nonracist." "At a time when new controversies have again raised the question of whether race and social destiny are ineluctably joined as partners, Race: The History of an Idea in the West reveals that one of the partners is a phantom - medieval astrology and physiognomy disguised by pseudoscientific thought. And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements? This ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "History of an idea in the West".
• catalog contributor b8201820.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description ""In Race, The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But, Hannaford shows, race is not a universal idea - not even and the West. It is an idea were a definite pedigree, and Hannaford traces that confused pedigree from Hesiod to the Holocaust and beyond." "Hannaford begins by examining the ideas of race supposedly health in the ancient world, contrasting them with the complex social, philosophy, political, and scientific ideas actually held at the time. Through the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods, he critically examines precursors and history, science, and philosophy. Hannaford distinguishes those cultures' ideas of social inclusion, rank, and role from modern ones based on race. But he also finds the first traces of modern ideas of race and the protoscences of late medieval cabalism and hermeticism. Following that trail forward, he describes the establishment of modern scientific and philosophical notions of race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows how those notions became popular and pervasive, even among those who claim to be nonracist." "At a time when new controversies have again raised the question of whether race and social destiny are ineluctably joined as partners, Race: The History of an Idea in the West reveals that one of the partners is a phantom - medieval astrology and physiognomy disguised by pseudoscientific thought. And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements? This ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-418) and index.".
• catalog description "Western history and thought before race -- In the beginning -- The ancient world -- Transitions from Greece to Rome -- Jews, Christians, Moors, and Barbarians -- Monsters and the occult -- New methods, new worlds, and the search for origins -- The racialization of the west -- The first stage in the development of an idea of race, 1684-1815 -- The search for historical and biological origins, 1815-1870 -- The rise of the race-state and the invention of antisemitism, 1870-1900 -- Race is all, 1890-1939 -- Reactions, retractions, and new orthodoxies, 1920 to the present.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 448 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Race.".
• catalog identifier "0801852226 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0801852234 (paper : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Race.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Race.".
• catalog subject "305.8 20".
• catalog subject "HT1507 .H36 1996".
• catalog subject "Race awareness History.".
• catalog subject "Racism History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Western history and thought before race -- In the beginning -- The ancient world -- Transitions from Greece to Rome -- Jews, Christians, Moors, and Barbarians -- Monsters and the occult -- New methods, new worlds, and the search for origins -- The racialization of the west -- The first stage in the development of an idea of race, 1684-1815 -- The search for historical and biological origins, 1815-1870 -- The rise of the race-state and the invention of antisemitism, 1870-1900 -- Race is all, 1890-1939 -- Reactions, retractions, and new orthodoxies, 1920 to the present.".
• catalog title "History of an idea in the West".
• catalog title "Race : the history of an idea in the West / Ivan Hannaford ; [foreword by Bernard Crick].".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".