Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Efram Sera-Shriar
Chapter 1. Contemporaries of the Cave Bear and the Woolly Rhinoceros: Historicizing Prehistoric Humans and Extinct Beasts, 1859–1914 / Chris Manias
Chapter 2. Of Rocks and “Men”: The Cosmogony of John William Dawson / Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
Chapter 3. Historicizing Belief: E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, and the Evolution of Religion / Efram Sera-Shriar
Chapter 4. The History of the “Red Man”: William Bollaert and the Indigenous People of the Americas / Maurizio Esposito and Abigail Nieves Delgado
Chapter 5. Historicizing Humans in Colonial India / Thomas Simpson
Chapter 6. How and Why Darwin Got Emotional about Race / Gregory Radick
Chapter 7. The Comparative Method in “Shallow Time”: Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and Francis Galton / Helen Kingstone
Chapter 8. The Future Evolution of “Man” / Ian Hesketh
Afterword. Historiographical Reflections on the Historicization of Humans in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences / Theodore Koditschek
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index