Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development YA_Gift_Guide author of On Trails and

author of On Trails and In Trees

contradiction-laden experience

we’ve forgotten the more fundamental things that unite us

Butler hasn't just witnessed history

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Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development YA_Gift_Guide author of On Trails andIn 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