A RACE FOR THE FUTURE: SCIENTIFIC VISIONS OF MODERN RUSSIAN JEWISHNESS.
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2022
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United KingdomAny Amount of Books
AbeBooks seller since October 14, 2002
Condition: Used
£ 22.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
8vo. pp: viii, 334. Original publisher's black boards with red lettering at spine in original publisher's red, white and black illustrated dust jacket. ISBN: 9780674270725 Dust jacket slightly creased at top and bottom of spine. Marks at rear cover. Otherwise perfectly tight and clean copy. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # C68948
- Title
- A RACE FOR THE FUTURE: SCIENTIFIC VISIONS OF MODERN RUSSIAN JEWISHNESS.
- Author
- MOGILNER, Marina.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 2022
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067427072X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674270725
- Edition
- 1st Edition
The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.
In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to easily conform to new standards of nationality meant a future of inevitable assimilation or second-class minority citizenship. The solution proposed by Russian Jewish intellectuals was to ground Jewish nationhood in a structure deeper than culture or territory―biology.
Marina Mogilner examines three leading Russian Jewish race scientists― Samuel Weissenberg, Alexander El’kind, and Lev Shternberg―and the movement they inspired. Through networks of race scientists and political activists, Jewish medical societies, and imperial organizations like the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, they aimed to produce “authentic” knowledge about the Jewish body, which would motivate an empowering sense of racially grounded identity and guide national biopolitics. Activists vigorously debated eugenic and medical practices, Jews’ status as Semites, Europeans, and moderns, and whether the Jews of the Caucasus and Central Asia were inferior. The national science, and the biopolitics it generated, became a form of anticolonial resistance, and survived into the early Soviet period, influencing population policies in the new state.
Comprehensive and meticulously researched, A Race for the Future reminds us of the need to historically contextualize racial ideology and politics and makes clear that we cannot fully grasp the biopolitics of the twentieth century without accounting for the imperial breakdown in which those politics thrived.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Any Amount of Books
London, United Kingdom
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 6 to 30 business days | 6 to 30 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 18.50 | £ 18.50 |
Payment methods
Store description
Second hand, new and antiquarian books, some rare, some manuscripts. We update our stock almost weekly - please do keep checking with us. Not all books online are kept at the Shop on Charing Cross Road. so please contact us before coming in for a book that you have found here .
Specialty
Large General Stock., Avant Garde, Literature, Academic, Antiquarian, ArtAssociation member
Seller's business information
Any Amount of Books Limited
56 Charing Cross Road, Westminster
London, United Kingdom WC2H 0QA
Terms of sale
Professional second hand bookseller, seasoned with decades of bookselling.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom, +44 0207 836 3697, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.