Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 16001750
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Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 16001750
By (Author) Mark Dawson
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
12th July 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethnic studies
History of science
European history
305.800942
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Paperback
280
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 15mm
399g
Description
Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history - one belying racism's assumption that such distinctions are natural or timeless. -- .
Reviews
'What did his blackness mean to early modern Englishmen This is the kind of complex issue regarding chromatics (color) and ethnology that Mark Dawson examines in Bodies Complexioned.'
Journal of British Studies
Author Bio
Mark S. Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the Australian National University, Canberra
