From Humanism to the Science of Man

Colonialism in Africa and the Understanding of Alien Societies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5834166
AutoresT O Ranger, Terence Ranger (autor de correspondencia)
Año1976
Volumen26
Páginas115-141
Fecha de publicación1976-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3679075
OpenAlexW2082869549
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas21

IN his 'English Contributions to Renaissance Colonisation' Professor Quinn treats one only of the interactions between humanism and overseas expansion. He does not here discuss, as he has done elsewhere, the stimulus to speculation about human history and society which was given by the discovery of new worlds of custom. He concentrates rather upon the ways in which those who advocated, planted and managed colonies were inspired by or appealed to humanist learning, and in particular the example of Rome. In much the same way I am not centrally concerned in this paper to discuss the stimulus given to academic enquiry by the intensified encounter of Europe with the rest of the world during the last hundred years. My main concern is with the ways in which those who advocated, pacified and administered colonies were inspired by or appealed to the new sciences of man

Alien · Archaeology · Art history · Colonialism · Humanism · Political science · Sociology · Speculation · Stimulus (psychology · The Renaissance · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Psychology