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📱 eBook en inglés The Race Makers

A History of the Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Legacy

ANDREW S. CURRAN

The Westbourne Press- 9781908906649

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Sinopsis de The Race Makers

In the early eighteenth century, Christianity began to lose its hold on the story of humankind. Yet centuries of xenophobia, religious intolerance and emerging biological ideas did not simply disappear. Instead, secular thinkers reshaped them as they looked to redefine what it meant to be human. By centurys end, naturalists and philosophers had divided humankind into racial categories using methods associated with the Enlightenment era.

In The Race Makers, Enlightenment specialist Andrew S. Curran traces the emergence of race through thirteen pivotal figures, including Louis XIV, Buffon, Carl Linnaeus, Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant and Thomas Jefferson. From the gilded halls of Versailles to the slave plantations of the Caribbean, and from the court of the Mughal Empire to the drawing rooms of Monticello, Curran reveals how the pursuit of knowledge became entangled with – and often drove – systems of empire and oppression. The result is a bold reappraisal of the Enlightenments most celebrated luminaries.

Combining rigorous scholarship with vivid storytelling, The Race Makersoffers a sweeping and unsettling account of how modern concepts of race were born – and why they still matter.

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Editorial: The Westbourne Press

ISBN: 9781908906649

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 10/02/2026


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