Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development YA_Gift_Guide A New York Times Editor's

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Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development YA_Gift_Guide A New York Times Editor'sIn an exciting new study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth