The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. - ISAAC, B.,
KORTE INHOUD
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored 'ethnic and cultural', but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism - or proto-racism - which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society.Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imper...
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2006Uitgever: Princeton University Press592 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691125988ISBN-13: 9780691125985Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Princeton/Oxford, 2006. 563p. Paperback. Like new. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: ISAAC, B.,] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity.]
