Annette smith translators (3 resultados)

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First printing. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Covers have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear and toning.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Xiii, 327 Pp. Green Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. With Gift Inscription From Both Of The Translators. Per Wikipedia, Joseph Arthur De Gobineau ( 1816 - 1882) Was A French Aristocrat Who Is Best Known For Helping Introduce Scientific Race Theory And "Racial Demography", And For Developing The Theory Of The Aryan Master Race And Nordicism. Known To His Contemporaries As A Novelist, Diplomat And Travel Writer, He Was An Elitist Who, In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Revolutions Of 1848, Wrote An Essay On The Inequality Of The Human Races. In It He Argued That Aristocrats Were Superior To Commoners And That Aristocrats Possessed More Aryan Genetic Traits Because Of Less Interbreeding With Inferior Races. Gobineau's Writings Were Quickly Praised By White Supremacist, Pro-Slavery Americans Like Josiah C. Nott And Henry Hotze, Who Translated His Book Into English. They Omitted Around 1,000 Pages Of The Original Book, Including Those Parts That Negatively Described Americans As A Racially Mixed Population. Inspiring A Social Movement In Germany Named Gobinism, His Works Were Also Influential On Prominent Antisemites Like Richard Wagner, Wagner's Son-In-Law Houston Stewart Chamberlain, The Romanian Politician Professor A. C. Cuza, And Leaders Of The Nazi Party, Who Later Edited And Re-Published His Work. [The Full Wikipedia Entry Is Almost Unbelievably Appalling, As He Was A Full Blown And Precise Racist In Almost Every Word He Uttered And Every Action He Undertook, And Never Undertook Any Constructive Project In The Real World, Writing From His Own Imagined Interpretation Of Th World, But Served Aristocratic France In Many Diplomatic Posts For Decades Nevertheless]. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Introduction & Notes by Clayton Eshleman with his signature atop title page & heavy notes in the text from his hand; Brown cloth with green spine title & green endpapers / pastedown: A good copy in a good dust jacket; 408 pages.