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Author Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- author

Title Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940 / Gregory D. Smithers
Edition Revised edition
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017

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Contents Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1. On the Importance of Good Breeding -- 2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness -- 3. Eliminating the "Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization" -- 4. Racial Discourse in the United States and Australia -- PART II -- 5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s -- 1850s -- 6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s -- 1850s -- 7. Evolution of an American Race, 1860s -- 1890s -- 8. Evolution of White Australia, 1860 -- 1890 -- PART III -- 9. "Science" of Human Breeding -- 10. "Breeding out the Colour."
Summary "Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the book's original publication, this completely revised edition includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism, Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia"-- Provided by publisher
"Gregory D. Smithers offers a sociohistorical tour-de-force of the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within the process of settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
White people -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Sex -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia
White people -- Race identity -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Sex -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Race relations
Science -- Social aspects
Sex -- Social aspects
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Australia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Australia
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017004080
ISBN 9781496200983
1496200985
9781496200990
1496200993
9781496201003
1496201000
080329591X
9780803295919