The Races Of Europe

One of the most important anthropological overviews of European racial types ever published.Although some of its conclusions have since been eclipsed by DNA studies, this work remains a standard in racial typology.Harvard professor of anthropology, Carleton S. Coon, concluded that:- The white race is of dual origin consisting of Upper Paleolithic (mixture of sapiens and neanderthals) types and Mediterranean (purely sapiens) types;- The Upper Paleolithic peoples are the truly indigenous peoples of Europe;- The Mediterraneans invaded Europe in large numbers during the Neolithic period;- When reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans mix, a process of "dinarization" occurs which produces a hybrid with non-intermediate features, epitomized by the Dinaric race.Contains the full set of original photographic plates. Once a college standard, this book has been suppressed for 50 years.CONTENTSChapter I: Introduction to the Historical Study of the White RaceChapter II: Pleistocene White MenChapter III: The Mesolithic PeriodChapter IV: The Neolithic Invasions Chapter V: The Bronze AgeChapter VI: The Iron Age(1) Race, Language, and European Peoples (2) The Illyrians (3) The Kelts (4) The Romans (5) The Scythians (6) The Germanic Peoples (7) The Slavs (8) ConclusionsChapter VII: The Iron Age, Part II (Speakers of Uralic and Altaic)Chapter VIII: Introduction to the Study of the Living(1) Materials and Techniques (2) The Use of Statistics in Physical Anthropology (3) Distribution of Bodily Characters: (a) Stature and Bodily Form (4) Distribution of Bodily Characters: (b) Head Form, Head Size, and Other Metrical Characters of the Head and Face (5) Distribution of Bodily Characters: (c) Pigmentation, the Pilous System, and Morphology of the Soft Parts (6) Racial Classification within the White FamilyChapter IX: The North(1) Introduction (2) The Lapps (3) The Samoyeds (4) Scandinavia; Norway (5) Iceland (6) Sweden (7) Denmark (8) The Finno-Ugrians, Introduction (9) Racial Characters of the Eastern Finns (10) The Baltic Finns: Livs and Esths (11) The Baltic Finns: Finland (12) The Baltic-Speaking Peoples (13) ConclusionsChapter X: The British Isles(1) Résumé of Skeletal History (2) Ireland (3) Great Britain, General Survey (4) The British Isles, SummaryPhotographic SupplementChapter XI: The Mediterranean World(1) Introduction (2) The Mediterranean Race in Arabia (3) Iraq and the Coastal Regions of the Persian Gulf (4) The Irano-Afghan Race; Iran and Afghanistan (5) The Turks as Mediterraneans (6) The Veddoid Periphery, Hadhramaut to Baluchistan (7) Palestine, Jewish Origins, and the Eastern Jews (8) The Mediterranean Race in East Africa (9) The Modern Egyptians (10) North Africa, Introduction (11) The Eastern Arabo-Berbers, Libya and the Oases (12) The Tuareg (13) Eastern Barbary, Algeria, and Tunisia (14) Western Barbary; Morocco and the Canary Islands (15) The Iberian Peninsula (16) The Western Mediterranean Islands (17) The Basques (18) The Gypsies (19) ConclusionsChapter XII: The Central Zone, A Study in Reëmergence(1) Introduction (2) France (3) Belgium (4) The Netherlands and Frisia (5) Germany (6) Switzerland and Austria (7) Italy (8) The Living Slavs: (a) Czechs and Wends (9) The Living Slavs: (b) Poland and Russia (10) Turks, Tatars and Mongols of European Russia (11) The Magyars (12) The Living Slavs: (c) Serbs, Croates and Slovenes (13) Albania and the Dinaric Race (14) The Greeks (15) Bulgaria (16) Rumania and the Vlachs (17) The Osmanli Turks (18) Near Eastern Brachycephals; Syria, Armenia and the Caucasus (19) Turkestan and the Tajiks (20) The brachycephalized Jews: Asia and Central Europe (21) ConclusionsChapter XIII: Conclusion(1) Comments and Reflections (2) The White Race and the New WorldAppendicesI. Means of Principal Cranial Series used in Chapters II-VIIII. GlossaryIII. List of Serials and Their AbbreviationsIV. List of BooksIndex

One of the most important anthropological overviews of European racial types ever published. Although some of its conclusions have since been eclipsed by DNA studies, this work remains a standard in racial typology. Harvard professor of anthropology, Carleton S. Coon, concluded that: - The white race is of dual origin consisting of Upper Paleolithic (mixture of sapiens and neanderthals) types and Mediterranean (purely sapiens) types; - The Upper Paleolithic peoples are the truly indigenous peoples of Europe; - The Mediterraneans invaded Europe in large numbers during the Neolithic period; - When reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans mix, a process of "dinarization" occurs which produces a hybrid with non-intermediate features, epitomized by the Dinaric race. Contains the full set of original photographic plates. Once a college standard, this book has been suppressed for 50 years.

This book explores a vital but neglected chapter in the histories of nationalism, racism and science. It is the first comprehensive study of the transnational scientific community that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries attempted to classify Europe's biological races. Anthropological race classifiers produced parallel geographies, histories and hierarchies of European peoples that were crucial to the creation of national identities and to the overtly political race discourses of eugenics and popular racist ideologues. They lent nationalism the invaluable prestige of natural science, and traced the histories, conflicts and relationships of ‘national races’ back into prehistory. Racial national character stereotypes meanwhile supported competing political ideologies. The book examines the interplay between class, gender and national identity narratives and the tensions and interactions between the scientific and political agendas of classifiers. Within the elaborate transnational networks of scientific communities, for example, they had to reconcile competing national narratives.