Savage Endings: Pre-Darwinian Theories About the Extinction of Primitive Races

Authors

  • Patrick Brantlinger

Keywords:

race, race discourse, imperialism, colonialism, science, natural history, economics, Malthus, ethnology, primitivism,

Abstract

  

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2020-06-11

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Brantlinger, P. (2020). Savage Endings: Pre-Darwinian Theories About the Extinction of Primitive Races. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 6(1), 1-13. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13805