Nature, human nature, and human difference : race in early modern philosophy /

People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the Ger...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Smith, Justin E. H. (Údar)
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2017.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dr363q
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