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- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
11 - Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
‘Of the thousand millions of human beings that are said to constitute the population of the entire globe, there are – socially, morally and perhaps even physically considered – but two distinct and broadly marked races, viz., the wanderers and the civilized tribes’, announces Henry Mayhew (1812–87) at the very beginning of his widely influential London Labour and the London Poor.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought , pp. 204 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019