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Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Citations and Terminology x
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Curious Kinks 24
Chapter 2: Toward a Historical Ontology of Race 56
Chapter 3: New Worlds 70
Chapter 4: The Specter of Polygenesis 92
Chapter 5: Diversity as Degeneration 114
Chapter 6: From Lineage to Biogeography 140
Chapter 7: L eibniz on Human Equality and Human Domination 160
Chapter 8: Anton Wilhelm Amo 207
Chapter 9: Race and Its Discontents in the Enlightenment 231
Conclusion 264
Biographical Notes 269
Bibliography 273
Index 293

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Citations and Terminology x
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Curious Kinks 24
Chapter 2: Toward a Historical Ontology of Race 56
Chapter 3: New Worlds 70
Chapter 4: The Specter of Polygenesis 92
Chapter 5: Diversity as Degeneration 114
Chapter 6: From Lineage to Biogeography 140
Chapter 7: L eibniz on Human Equality and Human Domination 160
Chapter 8: Anton Wilhelm Amo 207
Chapter 9: Race and Its Discontents in the Enlightenment 231
Conclusion 264
Biographical Notes 269
Bibliography 273
Index 293

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