Race and the Making of American Political Science

Name: Race and the Making of American Political Science
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science.\nThe Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a \""Teutonic germ\"" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery. Within a generation, \""Teutonism\"" would come to seem like philosophical speculation, but well into the\n\nRace and the Making of American Political Science\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that t;