Racism: a short history
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Racism: a short history
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number305.8924/0052
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]05457
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Scribe Publications
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2002
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]207p.,index
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0908011806
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Begins with medievil antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity and then traces the spread of racist thinking in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. Examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century roamntic nationalism created a new intellectual context for debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation