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Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians

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Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians - Brantlinger, Patrick
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In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet...

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Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians 2019, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9781501730894

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