Thesis ID: CBB001560502

The naturalization of humanity in America, 1776--1861 (2000)

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Hume, Brad D. (Author)


Indiana University
Capshew, James H.


Publication Date: 2000
Edition Details: Advisor: Capshew, James H.
Physical Details: 357 pp.
Language: English

Description Using the history of American ethnology, shows how Enlightenment conceptions of a universal human nature were replaced in the 19th century with an increasingly biological, racial view of humanity. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 61 (2000): 740A. UMI no. 9962774.


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Authors & Contributors
Minella, Timothy K.
Balogh, Piroska
Lynn Festa
Cerea, Alessandra
Carter, Noni D.
Curthoys, Ned
Concepts
Definition of human; human nature
Physical anthropology
Ethnology
Philosophy
Anthropology
Science and race
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
Scotland
Europe
England
Russia
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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