The American historical review, 2010-12, Vol.115 (5), p.1364-1394
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering
- Ist Teil von
- The American historical review, 2010-12, Vol.115 (5), p.1364-1394
- Ort / Verlag
- England: The University of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- 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.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0002-8762eISSN: 1937-5239DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_851746103
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Age of Enlightenment, AHR Forum: New Perspectives on the Enlightenment, Bioengineering - education, Bioengineering - history, Breeding, Colonial history, Colonialism, Colonialism - history, Colonies, Colonies & territories, Cultural history, Enlightenment, Ethnic Groups - education, Ethnic Groups - ethnology, Ethnic Groups - history, Ethnic Groups - legislation & jurisprudence, Ethnic Groups - psychology, Eugenics, Eugenics - history, France - ethnology, Genealogy, Genetics, Population - education, Genetics, Population - history, Haiti, Haiti - ethnology, Hierarchy, Social - history, History of ideas, History of medicine, History, 18th Century, Human Body, Human Characteristics, Humans, Men, Militias, Philosophy, Political history, Race Relations - history, Race Relations - legislation & jurisprudence, Race Relations - psychology, Slavery, Slaves, Social history, Social reproduction, White people