Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940

Smithers, Gregory D. 1974- (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780803295919
ISBN: 080329591X
ISBN: 1496201000
ISBN: 9781496201003
ISBN: 1496200993
ISBN: 9781496200990
ISBN: 1496200985
ISBN: 9781496200983
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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."
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.