{"product_id":"science-race-relations-and-resistance-britain-18701914-a-study-of-late-victorian-and-edwardian-racism-studies-in-imperialism-9780719033575","title":"Science Race Relations and Resistance Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppropriate for specialists on Victorian racism as well as those new to the subject, Science, Race Relations and Resistance gives an illuminating and critical examination of the development of scientific racism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Science, Race Relations and Resistance impresses with its exploration of racial rhetoric, and convincingly unravels the tangled relationship between scientific racism and the real problems posed by the ‘colour question’. It thus manages to align imperial history and anthropological history in a new and credible way, and will undoubtedly be valued by scholars in both fields.’\u003cbr\u003eElise Juzda Smith, The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 101, Issue 347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Ultimately, Lorimer’s Science, Race Relations and Resistance, 1870–1914 is a wide ranging and important survey of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century 362 Book Reviews debates on race and race relations that will be of interest to historians of Britain, imperialism and racism.’\u003cbr\u003eSadiah Qureshi, The University of Birmingham, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History\u003cbr\u003e25 Mar 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A great strength of \u003ci\u003eScience, Race Relations and Resistance \u003c\/i\u003eis its refusal to generalize or simplify British ideas about race in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through systematic analyses of a wide variety of sources, from popular science works, to humanitarian journals, to writings by scholars and administrators interested in the ’colour question’, Lorimer shows that there was always a multiplicity of views about how best to manage race relations.’\u003cbr\u003eElise Juzda Smith, University of Warwick, Journal of the Historical Association\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Editor’s introduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate development\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Race \u003cbr\u003e3. Race and science: from institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871–1914\u003cbr\u003e4. Race, popular science, and empire\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The language of race relations\u003cbr\u003e5. From colour prejudice to race relations \u003cbr\u003e6. The colour question – 'The greatest difficulty in the British Empire', 1900–14 \u003cbr\u003ePart III: Resistance \u003cbr\u003e7. Resistance: initiatives and obstacles \u003cbr\u003e8. Conclusion \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037283123543,"sku":"9780719033575","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719033575.jpg?v=1750935144","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-race-relations-and-resistance-britain-18701914-a-study-of-late-victorian-and-edwardian-racism-studies-in-imperialism-9780719033575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}