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The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

Kimberly Anne Coles
3/5 ( ratings)
The essays collected here consider how conceptions of blood permeate discourses of human difference from 1500 to 1900 in England and continental Spain and in the Anglo- and Ibero-Americas. The authors explore how ideas about blood in science and literature have supported, at various points in history, fantasies of human embodiment and difference that serve to naturalize social hierarchies already in place. Situating the complex relationship between modern and pre-modern conceptions of race at the junction of early modern medicine, heredity, religion, and nation, The Cultural Politics of Blood challenges established accounts of the genealogy of modern racism.
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
January 28, 2015
ISBN
1137338202
ISBN 13
9781137338204

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

Kimberly Anne Coles
3/5 ( ratings)
The essays collected here consider how conceptions of blood permeate discourses of human difference from 1500 to 1900 in England and continental Spain and in the Anglo- and Ibero-Americas. The authors explore how ideas about blood in science and literature have supported, at various points in history, fantasies of human embodiment and difference that serve to naturalize social hierarchies already in place. Situating the complex relationship between modern and pre-modern conceptions of race at the junction of early modern medicine, heredity, religion, and nation, The Cultural Politics of Blood challenges established accounts of the genealogy of modern racism.
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
January 28, 2015
ISBN
1137338202
ISBN 13
9781137338204

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