Character and Temperament
by Jastrow, Joseph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Underlining and notes to two pages.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Underlining and notes to two pages.. 1915. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Jastrow was a Polish-born professor of the young science of psychology at the University of Wisconsin for nearly forty years. He worked to promote and popularize psychological theories and experiments among the general public and was particularly interested in research on optical and psychological illusions and debunking parapsychology. In this volume, published after his first nervous breakdown, he details his theories about perceived sexual and racial differences in human behavior filtered through the lens of his own biases and prejudices; to whit, his explanations of female hysteria, "the yellow peril", and this gem: "Speaking broadly, the negro mind has been adequate to follow and adopt the patterns of activity evolved by a culture rated as vastly superior, infinitely more complex than that is which he would now find himself, had he remained in his original habitat." xviii, 596 pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35461
- Title
- Character and Temperament
- Author
- Jastrow, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Underlining and notes to two pages.
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Scientific Racism, SOCIAL Psychology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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