Henry Curran (386 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. In 1739 Bordeauxs Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy.…

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In 1739 Bordeauxs Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

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Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1940 8vo. 197 pages. grey cloth boards moderately soiled. previous owner inscription to ffep. binding tight. rubbing to dust jacket which is in protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. no dust jacket. The hardcover shows wear, with corners bumped and spine ends frayed. The front cover is slightly sunned along the edges. Binding remains sound. The pages are clean, though there is a library stamp from CedarWood Christian Academy on the title page. No dust jacket is present. Ed Augustiny, Bill Baker, John Henry, James Curran, Paul Hazelrigg, Bart Jenner, Robert Kresin, H. Charles McBarron, Tak Murakami, Jerry Pinkney, Don Tate, James Teason (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some soiling to the covers; the pages are yellowed; name inside; a good sound binding. No jacket. Illustrator: Wright, George. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 206064. Wright, George (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This book is good +; tight and clean with no markings; the boards show very little wear of any kind; dust jacket is also in good condition with a few minor dings. Illustrated by George Wright (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. 2023 PROSE Award in European History"An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon."-Washington Post"Reveals how prestigious natural scientists once sought physical explanations, in vain, for a social identity that continues to carry enormous significance to this day."-Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People"A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism."-Publishers Weekly"To read [these essays] is to witness European intellectuals, in the age of the Atlantic slave trade, struggling, one after another, to justify atrocity."-Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesIn 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of "blackness." What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement asked. Sixteen essays, written in French and Latin, were ultimately dispatched from all over Europe. Documented on each page are European ideas about who is Black and why. Looming behind these essays is the fact that some four million Africans had been kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic by the time the contest was announced.The essays themselves represent a broad range of opinions, which nonetheless circulate around a common theme: the search for a scientific understanding of the new concept of race. More important, they provide an indispensable record of the Enlightenment-era thinking that normalized the sale and enslavement of Black human beings.These never previously published documents survived the centuries tucked away in Bordeaux's municipal library. Translated into English and accompanied by a detailed introduction and headnotes written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, each essay included in this volume lays bare the origins of anti-Black racism and colorism in the West.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin-an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of "blackness." What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement asked. Sixteen essays, written in French and Latin, were ultimately dispatched from all over Europe. The authors ranged from naturalists to physicians, theologians to amateur savants. Documented on each page are European ideas about who is Black and why.Looming behind these essays is the fact that some four million Africans had been kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic by the time the contest was announced. The essays themselves represent a broad range of opinions. Some affirm that Africans had fallen from God's grace; others that blackness had resulted from a brutal climate; still others emphasized the anatomical specificity of Africans. All the submissions nonetheless circulate around a common theme: the search for a scientific understanding of the new concept of race. More important, they provide an indispensable record of the Enlightenment-era thinking that normalized the sale and enslavement of Black human beings.These never previously published documents survived the centuries tucked away in Bordeaux's municipal library. Translated into English and accompanied by a detailed introduction and headnotes written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, each essay included in this volume lays bare the origins of anti-Black racism and colorism in the West. In 1739 Bordeauxs Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Early printing. Note: sold as a good original reading copy only, NOT a collectible in this condition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, viii + 551 pages, gilt spine titles on black cloth. A good, generally clean, early hard cover edition with significant shelf wear, rubbing through at all fore-corner tips, back strip cloth frayed at top and bottom edges light exterior soiling; internal binding generally solid, paper moderately yellowed with foxing throughout.…

original publisher's cloth. large 8vo. original publisher's cloth. (x), 648 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. Catalogue of the book portion of a collection donated to the Liverpool Free Public Library by the Liverpool businessman and collector H.F. Hornby c. 1898. Hornby's library contained illustrated books, books on art, collections of prints, and books of artistic interest: e.g. many books illustrated by Cruikshank, a complete set of Kelmscott Press books, a number of Bewick items, a collection of 18th-century French illustrated books, bindings by Fazakerley, Payne, Riviere, Zaehnsdorf et al., etc. etc. Entries, occasionally annotated, for about 8,000 volumes. Hornby, Hugh Frederick (illustrator).…

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Life Of The Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Late Master Of The Rolls In Ireland. Book.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.