INDIGENOUS RACES OF THE EARTH; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Enquiry; including monographs on special departments of Philology, Archaeology, Comparative Geography, and Nathural History

Maury, Alfred; Pulsky, Francis; Meigs, J. Aitken; J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon rev

Verlag: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868

xxiv, 25-656pp. 4to, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. xxiv, 25-656pp. B/W and Sepia plates, two foldouts. Front hinge cracked and shaken, cloth rubbed at tips and chipped at head of spine but with all lettering intact. First foldout is taped in. Interior text VERY GOOD, entirely clean and sound. A compendium of 19th century scientific explorations of the nature and origins of race. Josiah Nott, the main editor and organizer of this publication, was a leading polygenist marshalling a wide gamut of cranial spectrometry, philological gradations, and even the global dispersment of primates in his advocacy for a scientifically grounded racial hierarchy. Polygeny called for varied origins of the races of man as opposed to the scripturally derived notion of a single 'Adam.' Following the first edition in 1857, Nott, a resident of Mobile, 'encountered particularly receptive audiences in the South for his 'lectures on n---erology' (as he called them)' (Gould, Mismeasure of Man, p.69). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 504758

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Titel: INDIGENOUS RACES OF THE EARTH; or, New ...
Verlag: J. B. Lippincott & Co
Erscheinungsdatum: 1868
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: GOOD
Auflage: Second Edition.