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Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2023)

Tim McInerney (Author)

Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 262

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Colonialism Medicine Natural philosophy Race 18th century Ireland Great Britain

Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain focuses on 18th-century Britain and Ireland at a time when race theory as we know it today was steadily emerging in the realm of natural philosophy to examine the structural relationship between nobility and race.This ground-breaking book examines texts from the fields of naturalism, political philosophy, medicine, and colonial venture, as well as interrogating works of drama and literature, in order to track how climate-based understandings of human variety at this time became increasingly imbued with noble traditions of genealogical purity and hierarchies of descent. This process, the book argues, allowed British naturalists and wider society to understand global populations according to an already familiar pattern of genealogical inequality, and offered the proponents of race theory a ready made model of natural supremacy.In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Tim McInerney explains why nobility and race developed in the way they did and how the premise of each promoted a certain idea of superiority. The result is a necessary in-depth understanding of how genealogical exclusivity works as a power strategy, vital to students and scholars alike.

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Review Ross Lowton (2024) Review of "Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 211-212). unapi

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