1st Edition

Race & History

By E Pittard Copyright 2003

    First published in 2013. This volume is intended to serve as a companion to Febvre's Geographical Introduction to History, which estimated the value of 'environment' as a factors in history. The present volume considers the 'racial' factors, the anthological reality which depends on somatic characters, build, height, colour of hair and eyes, craniological and facial form etc. the author carefully distinguishes from such artificial entities as peoples, nations, civilisation or language groups.

    Part 1 General Considerations; Chapter 1 Race and History; Chapter 2 Classification of the Races of Mankind; Chapter 3 Race and Language; Chapter 4 Primitive Human Races; Part 2 The Races of Europe; Chapter 5 An Attempted General Classification; Chapter 6 The Iberian Peninsular; Chapter 7 France; Chapter 8 Italy; Chapter 9 Switzerland; Chapter 10 Germany; Chapter 11 Belgium; Chapter 12 The British Isles; Chapter 13 Holland; Chapter 14 Scandinavia; Chapter 15 The Slavs of Former Russia; Chapter 16 Slavs Outside the Former Russian Empire; Chapter 17 Austria; Chapter 18 Hungary; Chapter 19 The Balkan Peninsular; Chapter 20 The Ægean People; Part 3 The Races of Asia; Chapter 21 General Remarks; Chapter 22 The Osmanli Turks; Chapter 23 The Phœnicians; Chapter 24 The Jews; Chapter 25 The Arabs; Chapter 26 The Iranians (Kurds and Armenians); Chapter 27 The Mongols or Tatar Mongols; Chapter 28 The Peoples of India; Chapter 29 The Chinese; Chapter 30 The Japanese; Part 4 The Races of Africa; Chapter 31 The EgyptiansPart 5 The Races of AmericaPart 6 The Races of Oceania;

    Biography

    E. Pittard