1st Edition

Race and Empire

By Jane Samson Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century are probably more racially self-aware than any other generation has been. Like the relationship between gender and history, that between race and history is perceived to be of the utmost importance by young people and the older generation because it has left such a controversial legacy in the shape of hopes for multiculturalism, diversity, and... Read more

Preface
List of abbreviations
Chronology
Maps  

Part One: Introduction

1. Background and Context

Part Two: Analysis

1. The Early Modern Period

2. The Rise of the Modern Empires, 1700-1820

3. Settlement  and Consolidation, 1820-1880

4. The Age of Scientific Racism, 1880-1950

Part Three: Assessment
5. Conclusions

Part Four: Documents

Biography

Jane Samson