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2. Racial Ideas and the Politics of Prejudice 1850–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Michael D. Biddiss
Michael D. Biddiss
Affiliation:
Downing College, Cambridge.
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The Historical Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1972 , pp. 570 - 582
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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References

1 For a concise but sensitive account of this important feature, see Burrow, John, ‘The Uses of Philology in Victorian England’ in Robson, R. (ed.), Ideas and Institutions of Victorian Britain (London, 1967), pp. 180–204.Google Scholar

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3 I have sought to illustrate this feature (among others) in a forthcoming volume, European Racism: Aspects of History and Ideology, especially chs. in and vi. An outstanding (though, because of its elaborateness, rather extreme) example from France is discussed in my Father of Racist Ideology: the Social and Political Thought of Count Gobineau (London, 1970), perhaps especially pp. 164–72.Google Scholar

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