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Anthropological race classifiers produced parallel geographies, histories and hierarchies of European peoples that were crucial to the creation of national identities and to the overtly political race discourses of eugenics and popular racist ideologues. Racial national character stereotypes meanwhile supported competing political ideologies.
Dr Richard McMahon is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where he studies the transnational networks and political narratives of EU Studies. He has published several edited volumes on both race science and European integration and worked at University College Cork, Ireland, and the University of Bristol, UK.
Illustrations. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction: Rediscovering a lost science. - PART I: NETWORKS, METHODS AND NARRATIVES. - Part 1: Networks, methods and narratives. - 1. Race classifiers and anthropologists. - 2. How Classification Worked. - 3. European Race Classifications: Anthropology, Ethnicity and Politics. - PART II: PERIPHERAL CASE STUDIES. - 4. The Irish dilemma: Nineteenth-century science and Celtic identity. - 5. Poland: Scientific independence and Nordicism. - 6. Between International Science and Nationalism: Interwar Romanian race science. - Conclusion. - Epilogue. - Genetics: race classification redux?. - Bibliography. - Atlas