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

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TextSeries: Science and culture in the nineteenth centuryPublisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (vi, 326 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9780822986072
0822986078

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301.0941 23

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GN50.45.G7

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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar; Chapter 1. Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: Historicizing Prehistoric Humans and Extinct Beasts, 1859-1914 / Chris Manias; Chapter 2. Of Rocks and "Men": The Cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund; Chapter 3. Historicizing Belief: E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, and the Evolution of Religion / Efram Sera-Shriar.

Chapter 4. The History of the "Red Man": William Bollaert and the Indigenous People of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves DelgadoChapter 5. Historicizing Humans in Colonial India / Thomas Simpson; Chapter 6. How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race / Gregory Radick; Chapter 7. The Comparative Method in "Shallow Time": Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone; Chapter 8. The Future Evolution of "Man" / Ian Hesketh; Afterword. Historiographical Reflections on the Historicization of Humans in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Theodore Koditschek.

NotesBibliography; List of Contributors; Index.

Summary: A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity's past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.

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NotesBibliography; List of Contributors; Index.

A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity's past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.

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