Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-481) and index.
Contents
Inventions/reinventions: race studies, modernity, and the Middle Ages -- State/nation: a case study of the racial state: Jews as internal minority in England -- War/empire: race figures in the international contest: The Islamic "Saracen" -- Color: epidermal race, fantasmatic race: blackness and Africa in the racial sensorium -- World I: a global race in the European imaginary: Native Americans in the North Atlantic -- World II: the Mongol Empire: global race as absolute power -- World III: "gypsies": a global race in diaspora, a slave race for the centuries.
