Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion

Jonathan Burton & Ania Loomba  2007

E-Book: 319 English pages

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Price: 1000 Toman

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This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings on religion, skin color, seExual and marital practices, geography, and the human body are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories.

Review

“Recent preferencing of nationalism over pan-Europeanism and the return of religious fundamentalisms, of crusade and jihad, suggest recursion to the premodern. This book, dedicated to early modern England, tests such suggestions to the full; its timeliness can hardly be exaggerated. An astutely edited, capacious anthology.”

“This rich collection changes the conversation about early modern ideas of race. Burton and Loomba’s smashing introduction is a model of clarity on a complex topic, and they have intelligently assembled a wide range of primary materials, including a number of compelling and little-known visual images, that reveal the salience and ubiquity of race as an early modern concept. A magnificently useful classroom text, Race in Early Modern England is a state-of-the-art contribution to contemporary scholarship on racial difference.”