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Paperback Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, C. 1600-1750 Book

ISBN: 152616390X

ISBN13: 9781526163905

Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, C. 1600-1750

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Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of sources, this book examines how early modern English people understood bodily difference. It demonstrates that individuals' distinctive features were considered innate, even as...

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