W. W. Norton & Company, Date: 2010-03-15. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2010. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

New York: Norton, Date: 2010. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated in black and white. xii, 496 pages. 8vo, black boards, d.w. (wrinkled, stained at rear). New York: Norton, (2010). First Edition. Few pages wavy near front, up page edge spotted, internally clean and tight. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> 2010. Norton ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

W. W. Norton & Company, Date: 2010-03-15. hardcover. Very Good. Clean, sturdy, unmarked copy in very good condition. With dust jacket. Light wear to the top and bottom edges. A few pages dog earred. SZ 2010. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

Norton & Company Limited, W. W. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Norton & Company Limited, W. W ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

Norton & Company Limited, W. W. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Norton & Company Limited, W. W ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

W W NORTON & CO. New. Special order direct from the distributor W W NORTON & CO ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [CA]

Hardback. New. A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race-not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [GB]

W. W. Norton & Company, Date: 2010-03-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2010. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393049345 9780393049343 [US]

ISBN10: 0393049345, ISBN13: 9780393049343, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Our story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave others. Not until the eighteenth century did an obsession with whiteness flourish, with the German invention of the notion of Caucasian beauty. This theory made northern Europeans into 'Saxons,' 'Anglo-Saxons,' and 'Teutons,' envisioned as uniquely handsome natural rulers. Here was a worldview congenial to northern Europeans bent on empire. There followed an explosion of theories of race, now focusing on racial temperament as well as skin color. Spread by such intellectuals as Madame de Stael and Thomas Carlyle, white race theory soon reached North America with a vengeance. Its chief spokesman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, did the most to label Anglo-Saxons--icons of beauty and virtue--as the only true Americans. It was an ideal that excluded not only blacks but also all ethnic groups not of Protestant, northern European background. The Irish and Native Americans were out and, later, so were the Chinese, Jews, Italians, Slavs, and Greeks--all deemed racially alien. Did immigrations threaten the very existence of America Americans were assumed to be white, but who among poor immigrants could become truly American A tortured and convoluted series of ...
Show/Hide image