Race and the Scottish Enlightenment – A Colonial History, 1750–1820 - Bruce Buchan, Linda Andersson Burnett

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity  In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical students from the University of Edinburgh construed humanity as a subject of both intellectual curiosity and colonial interest. They drew on a shared educational background, blending medicine with natural history and moral philosophy, in a range of encounters with non-European and Indigenous peoples across the globe whom they began to classify as... Zobrazit více