The Influence of Race in History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9782366593792)

Among the factors which determine the birth and development of the basic elements of a civilization, one of the most important - perhaps the most important because it represents the synthesis of all the others - is race, that is to say, the ensemble of the physical, moral and intellectual qualities which characterize a people. At the moment when the races of mankind first appeared in history, they has in general already acquired fairly stable qualities which could only be transformed very slowly afterwards. The oldest Egyptian bas-reliefs, upon which are found reproduced the diverse peoples which the Pharaohs were in touch with, show us that our present-day large classifications of races may already be applicable to the dawn of history. Human races, or the diverse human species which live on the surface of the globe, took shape over the hundreds of thousands of years that have preceded historical times...

Author: Philip V. N. Myers, Gustave Le Bon
ISBN-10: 2366593791
ISBN-13: 9782366593792
Publisher: LM Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2017
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.23d