The Victorian reinvention of race: new racisms and the problem of grouping in the human sciences

Introduction : reinventing racism -- Tocqueville and race -- Gobineau, Bagehot's precursor -- The common sense of Walter Bagehot -- Bagehot rewrites Gobineau -- Darwin and race -- Argyll, race, and degeneration -- Frederick Weld and the unnamed neighbours -- By way of a conclusion : Arthur Gordon.

Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. This title focuses on how the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time