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Labeling People

Martin S. Staum

2003

Overview

While previous studies have contrasted the relative optimism of middle-class social scientists before 1848 with a later period of concern for national decline and racial degeneration, Staum demonstrates that the earlier learned societies were also fearful of turmoil at home and interested in adventure abroad. Both geographers and ethnologists created concepts of fundamental \"racial\" inequality that prefigured the imperialist \"associationist\" discourse of the Third Republic, believing that European tutelage would guide \"civilizable\" peoples, and providing an open invitation to dominate and exploit the \"uncivilizable.\"

• Publisher: MQUP,McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: 19th century / Anthropology / Colonial history / Colonies / Empires / Ethnology -- France / France / France-Colonies-Histoire-19e siecle / France-Colonies-History-19th century / History / Imperialism / Imperialism-History-19th century / Imperialisme-Histoire-19e siecle / Learned institutions and societies / Learned institutions and societies -- France -- History -- 19th century / Learned institutions and societies-France-Paris-History-19th century / Paris / Phrenology / Phrenology-France-History-19th century / Physical anthropology / Physical anthropology-France-History-19th century / Race / Racism / Racism -- France -- History -- 19th century / Racism in anthropology / Racism in anthropology-France-History-19th century / Racisme-France-Histoire-19e siecle / Sciences sociales-France-Histoire-19e siecle / Social sciences / Societe de geographie de Paris-Histoire / Societe ethnologique de Paris-Histoire / Societe phrenologique de Paris-Histoire / Societes savantes et instituts-France-Paris-Histoire-19e siecle / Société de géographie (France)-History / Société ethnologique de Paris-History / Société phrénologique de Paris-History / Société de géographie de Paris / Société ethnologique de Paris / Société phrénologique de Paris
• ISBN: 9780773525801, 0773525807