Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians

Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians Brantlinger Patrick Wydawca: Cornell University Press Data wydania: 2011 ISBN: 9780801450198 Liczba stron: 288 Format: 234 x 163 x 22 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet...