{"product_id":"national-races-richard-mcmahon-9781496225849","title":"National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945","description":"\u003ci\u003eNational Races\u003c\/i\u003e explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the \"national races\" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. On the other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary project was a vital episode in the development of the social sciences, using biological race classification to explain the history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Races\u003c\/i\u003e delves to the heart of tensions between nationalism and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries. Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of historians on France, Britain, and Germany, \u003ci\u003ewith \u003c\/i\u003emyriad case studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard McMahon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496225848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496225849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d","brand":"Richard McMahon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190889705727,"sku":"9781496225849","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cd7d2e8-9ed4-423f-89a5-291da9033529.jpg?v=1690872918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/national-races-richard-mcmahon-9781496225849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}