With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was th
National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful,
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and Europ
Examines the history of Germany from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the 'tension of empire'.
David Ciarlo offers an innovative visual history of each of these transformations. Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, Ciarlo shows
