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Europe´s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900

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Description for Europe´s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Paperback. A historical and philosophical argument that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth, Vanita Seth demonstrates that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self–other is a product of modernity. Part historical, part philosophical, and part a history of science, her account exposes the epistemic conditions that enabled the thinking of difference at distinct historical junctures. Seth’s examination of Renaissance, Classical Age, and nineteenth-century representations of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Politics, History, & Culture
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347644
SKU
V9780822347644
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About Vanita Seth
Vanita Seth is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.

Reviews for Europe´s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
“’To suggest that history can be unmade’ might be a light undertaking were it really just a suggestion. In Vanita Seth’s exciting work of comparative political theory, the suggestion is not merely made but shown to be a real possibility given her meticulous, complex, and perceptive reading of the production of racial difference over roughly four hundred years of European ... Read more

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