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Can I read Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development on EtoBox?
Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development by Thomas Anthony McCarthy is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development about?
In an exciting new study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth century, Mill and social Darwinism in the nineteent
Who reads Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thomas Anthony McCarthy
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521740432
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25