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In 1857, Nott and Gliddon again co-edited a book, Indigenous Races of the Earth. [10] That book built upon the arguments in Types of Mankind that linked anthropology with "scientific" studies of race to establish a supposed natural hierarchy of the races. The book included chapters from Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury, J. Atkin Meigs, and Francis ...
Gobineau, Arthur (Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau) The Inequality of Human Races translated by Adrian Collins; Gobineau, Arthur (Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau) The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races, with particular reference to their perspective influence in the civil and political history of mankind translated by Henry Hotze
The Royal Society of Biologists in the UK shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Awards. [15] Bill Gates ranked Sapiens among his ten favorite books, [16] and Mark Zuckerberg also recommended it. [17] Kirkus Reviews awarded a star to the book, noting that it is "the great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor". [18]
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]
In his book A Voyage to Guinea (1723) he said "I am persuaded that the black and white race have sprung from different coloured parents." [ 32 ] In the last two decades of the 18th century polygenism was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White , in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster ...
Published in 1943, The Races of Mankind was a pamphlet intended for American troops. It set forth, in simple language with cartoon illustrations, the scientific case against racist beliefs. [ 9 ] The publication of this pamphlet and the subsequent political furor that it caused during the 1950s, when it was decried as a piece of socialist ...
Kant published an essay Von den verschiedenen Racen der Menschen "On the diverse races of mankind" in 1775, based on the system proposed by Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, in which he recognized four groups, a "white" European race (Race der Weißen), a "black" Negroid race (Negerrace), a copper-red Kalmyk race (kalmuckishe Race) and an olive ...