The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900
Author: Kimberly Anne Coles
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137338210


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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.