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Online-Ressource (591 p)
ISBN:
9780691125985
Content:
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored ""ethnic and cultural,"" but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greec
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: STEREOTYPES AND PROTO-RACISM: CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENTIATION; CHAPTER 1: Superior and Inferior Peoples; CHAPTER 2: Conquest and Imperialism; CHAPTER 3: Fears and Suppression; Conclusions to Part 1, Chapters 2 and 3; PART 2: GREEK AND ROMAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPECIFIC GROUPS: GREEK AND ROMAN IMPERIALISM; INTRODUCTION TO PART 2; CHAPTER 4: Greeks and the East; CHAPTER 5: Roman Imperialism and the Conquest of the East; CHAPTER 6: Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Syrians
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CHAPTER 7: EgyptiansCHAPTER 8: Parthia/Persia; CHAPTER 9: Roman Views of Greeks; CHAPTER 10: Mountaineers and Plainsmen; CHAPTER 11: Gauls; CHAPTER 12: Germans; CHAPTER 13: Jews; Conclusions to Part 2; END CONCLUSIONS; Ethnic Prejudice, Proto-Racism, and Imperialism in Antiquity; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF SOURCES; GENERAL INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400849567
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691125985
Additional Edition:
Print version The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
Language:
English
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