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He published several pamphlets on genealogical themes, but is best remembered for his lengthy 566-page book on race entitled Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration. [ 2 ] Works
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
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 ...
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]
One of Benedict's lesser-known works was a pamphlet "The Races of Mankind," which she wrote with her colleague at the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, Gene Weltfish. The pamphlet was intended for American troops and set forth in simple language with cartoon illustrations the scientific case against racist beliefs.
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 ...
In 1895, the Jones Publishing Company reissued Ridpath's History of the World alongside his four-volume work detailing the "Evolution of Mankind and Story of All Races," originally published in 1894, in a complete, sixteen-volume set. His publications include: Academic History of the United States (New York, 1874–5)