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EVOLUTION OF RACISM: The Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science.
by Shipman, Pat
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671754602
- ISBN 13
- 9780671754600
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About This Item
New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1994). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book by this award-winning scientist and author, which "combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences." Includes a discussion of the work of Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Ashley Montagu as well as less well-known but influential figures like Ernst Haeckel, the father of the eugenics movement and Carleton Coons who became the subject of a bitter academic feud. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 318 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82376
- Title
- EVOLUTION OF RACISM: The Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science.
- Author
- Shipman, Pat
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671754602
- ISBN 13
- 9780671754600
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Keywords
- Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Ashley Montagu , Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, Carleton Coons
- Bookseller catalogs
- Race relations and racism;
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