Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Race Myth in Retrospect
2. Performing Nobility in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. Human Hierarchy and the Great Chain of Being
4. The Noble Body in Ethno-national and Medical Discourse
5. Civilised Anatomies in Eighteenth-Century Human Variety Theory
6. Creating a Global Nobility: The Rise of Genealogical Race Theory
7. Ireland: A Nation of Nobilities
8. The South Seas: Laboratory of the Noble Physique
9. 'Royal Slaves': Abolitionism and the Fantasy of Slave Nobility
10. Noble Race in a Time of Revolution

Conclusion: How Nobility Shaped the Concept of Race

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Examines how race theory was created and established in 18th-century Britain and Ireland.

About the Author

Tim McInerney is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish civilisation at Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint Denis., France.