Article ID: CBB001035009

Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering (2010)

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This essay suggests a colonial and Enlightenment genealogy for racial ideas more commonly associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nelson exposes unfulfilled pseudo-eugenic plans, focused on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, in which racial engineering through controlled "breeding" was seen as a solution to challenges to stability after the Seven Years' War.

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Description Claims that there was “a colonial and Enlightenment genealogy for racial ideas more commonly associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Focused on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Weaver, Karol Kimberlee
Anderson, C. Thomas
Gurka, Dezső
MacLeod, Roy M.
Monteiro, João Lourenço
Nogueira, André
Journals
French Colonial History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of Global History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Columbia University
University of Minnesota
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Univ. Chicago Press
Concepts
France, colonies
Science and race
Colonialism
Slavery
Medicine
Disease and diseases
People
Bernier, François
Charles-Augustin Vandermonde
Ferguson, Adam
Kant, Immanuel
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Ricord, Jean-Baptiste
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Caribbean
Saint Domingue (Caribbean)
France
Europe
Algeria
Brazil
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