8. “Shadows of the Coming Race”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Race and the Victorians 1
5. Part I. Two Island Stories
6. 1. Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-Century Fiji 27
7. 2. King Billy’s Bones: The Last Tasmanians 46
8. Part II. Racial Alternatives
9. 3. Going Native in Nineteenth-Century History and Literature 65
10. 4. “God Works by Races”: Benjamin Disraeli’s Caucasian Arabian Hebrew Tent 86
11. Part III. The 1860s: The Decade after Darwin’s Origin
12. 5. Race and Class in the 1860s 111
13. 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Irish 136
14. Part IV. Ancient and Future Races
15. 7. Mummy Love: H. Rider Haggard and Racial Archaeology 159
16. 8. “Shadows of the Coming Race” 180
17. Epilogue: Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” and Its Afterlives 203
18. Notes 227
19. Works Cited 243
20. Index 269