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A Hideous Monster of the Mind : American Race Theory in the Early Republic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674030145
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Hideous Monster of the MindDDC classification:
  • 305.8/009
LOC classification:
  • GN269
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Face of Nature -- 2. Culture and the Persistence of Race -- 3. The Horrors of St. Domingue -- 4. The Mutability of Human Affairs -- 5. Conceiving Universal Equality -- 6. Black Immediatism -- 7. The New Ethnology -- 8. Effacing the Individual -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Face of Nature -- 2. Culture and the Persistence of Race -- 3. The Horrors of St. Domingue -- 4. The Mutability of Human Affairs -- 5. Conceiving Universal Equality -- 6. Black Immediatism -- 7. The New Ethnology -- 8. Effacing the Individual -- Notes -- Index.

The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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