Abstract
This chapter relates the history of the modern science of race, or raciology, to two contexts. One, 'globalisation', is empirical - the encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans and the expanding transnational networks of European savants which enabled Europe's racialisation and colonisation of much of the rest of the globe. The other, 'evolution', is intellectual - the genealogy of ideas about development and transmutation inspired by increasing geological, physiological, anatomical, social, and anthropological knowledge. My examples are mainly French, British, and German.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Histoire des sciences et des savoirs (History of sciences and knowledge) |
Editors | Kapil Raj, H. Otto Sibum |
Place of Publication | Paris |
Publisher | Éditions du Seuil |
Pages | 242-263 |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9782021076776 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |