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Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians
Patrick Brantlinger
Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians
Patrick Brantlinger
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...
288 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 16, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780801450198 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 163 × 234 × 22 mm · 532 g |
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