The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900(English, Electronic book text, unknown)

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The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900(English, Electronic book text, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137338210 (ISBN 10) and 9781137338211 (ISBN 13).

The essays collected here consider how conceptions of blood permeate discourses of human difference from 1500 to 1900 in England and continental Spain and in the Anglo- and Ibero-Americas. The authors explore how ideas about blood in science and literature have supported, at various points in history, fantasies of human embodiment and difference that serve to naturalize social hierarchies already in place. Situating the complex relationship between modern and pre-modern conceptions of race at the junction of early modern medicine, heredity, religion, and nation, The Cultural Politics of Blood challenges established accounts of the genealogy of modern racism.