Chris Manias
Biographic Data
| ID | 1185187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Manias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Manias |
| SIGNATURE | MANIAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8542-925X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Participant Observers
Land, Mines, and Bones
This chapter considers the connections between histories of the earth sciences (and knowledges of the earth more generally) and African history. It argues there is great potential synergy between them, both fields providing cross-disciplinary and long-durational means of considering the history of knowledge and engagement with the earth, especially through different forms of conceptual, political, and economic power. This is followed across two s…
Reconstructing an incomparable organism
Progress in life's history
This paper examines the tension between Darwinian evolution and palaeontological research in Britain in the 1860-1914 period, looking at how three key promoters of Darwinian thinking - Thomas Henry Huxley, Edwin Ray Lankester and Alfred Russell Wallace - integrated palaeontological ideas and narratives of life's history into their public presentations of evolutionary theory. It shows how engagement with palaeontological science was an important p…
Jesuit Scientists and Mongolian Fossils
This essay examines the Mission paléontologique française of the 1920s, a series of scientific expeditions into the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia in which a team of Jesuit scholar-scientists worked with local collaborators to provide material for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The case study shows that the global and colonial expansion of Western science in the early twentieth century provided space for traditional scientific institut…
The problematic construction of ‘Palaeolithic Man’
Egbert Klautke, The Mind of the Nation
Sinanthropus in Britain
The Peking Man fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian in north-east China in the 1920s and 1930s were some of the most extensive palaeoanthropological finds of the twentieth century. This article examines their publicization and discussion in Britain, where they were engaged with by some of the world's leading authorities in human evolution, and a media and public highly interested in human-origins research. This international link – simultaneously pr…
The Growth of Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The German ethnologist Gustav Klemm (1802–67) occupies a rather problematic position in the history of ideas, alternately hailed as a seminal figure in the development of concepts of race and culture, or belittled as a rather derivative marginal thinker. This article seeks to clarify Klemm's significance by rooting his theories in their contemporary intellectual and social context. It argues that his system, a linear model of human development dr…
Our Iberian Forefathers”
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Liberal Imperialism in Germany
"Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansion and Nationalism, 1848-1884, by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(3), pp. 535–536
TheRace prussienneControversy
This essay examines a dispute between the French and German anthropological communities in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. While the debate ostensibly revolved around the ethnological classification of the Prussian population presented in Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages's La race prussienne, this overlays much deeper points of contention, presenting a case study of how commitments to nationalism and internationalism in late nineteenth-…
TheRace prussienneControversy
This essay examines a dispute between the French and German anthropological communities in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. While the debate ostensibly revolved around the ethnological classification of the Prussian population presented in Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages's La race prussienne, this overlays much deeper points of contention, presenting a case study of how commitments to nationalism and internationalism in late nineteenth-…
Jesuit Scientists and Mongolian Fossils
This essay examines the Mission paléontologique française of the 1920s, a series of scientific expeditions into the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia in which a team of Jesuit scholar-scientists worked with local collaborators to provide material for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The case study shows that the global and colonial expansion of Western science in the early twentieth century provided space for traditional scientific institut…
Sinanthropus in Britain
The Peking Man fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian in north-east China in the 1920s and 1930s were some of the most extensive palaeoanthropological finds of the twentieth century. This article examines their publicization and discussion in Britain, where they were engaged with by some of the world's leading authorities in human evolution, and a media and public highly interested in human-origins research. This international link – simultaneously pr…
Our Iberian Forefathers”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Growth of Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The German ethnologist Gustav Klemm (1802–67) occupies a rather problematic position in the history of ideas, alternately hailed as a seminal figure in the development of concepts of race and culture, or belittled as a rather derivative marginal thinker. This article seeks to clarify Klemm's significance by rooting his theories in their contemporary intellectual and social context. It argues that his system, a linear model of human development dr…
Progress in life's history
This paper examines the tension between Darwinian evolution and palaeontological research in Britain in the 1860-1914 period, looking at how three key promoters of Darwinian thinking - Thomas Henry Huxley, Edwin Ray Lankester and Alfred Russell Wallace - integrated palaeontological ideas and narratives of life's history into their public presentations of evolutionary theory. It shows how engagement with palaeontological science was an important p…
The problematic construction of ‘Palaeolithic Man’
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
"Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansion and Nationalism, 1848-1884, by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(3), pp. 535–536
TheRace prussienneControversy
This essay examines a dispute between the French and German anthropological communities in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. While the debate ostensibly revolved around the ethnological classification of the Prussian population presented in Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages's La race prussienne, this overlays much deeper points of contention, presenting a case study of how commitments to nationalism and internationalism in late nineteenth-…
The Growth of Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The German ethnologist Gustav Klemm (1802–67) occupies a rather problematic position in the history of ideas, alternately hailed as a seminal figure in the development of concepts of race and culture, or belittled as a rather derivative marginal thinker. This article seeks to clarify Klemm's significance by rooting his theories in their contemporary intellectual and social context. It argues that his system, a linear model of human development dr…
Our Iberian Forefathers”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The problematic construction of ‘Palaeolithic Man’
Egbert Klautke, The Mind of the Nation
Sinanthropus in Britain
The Peking Man fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian in north-east China in the 1920s and 1930s were some of the most extensive palaeoanthropological finds of the twentieth century. This article examines their publicization and discussion in Britain, where they were engaged with by some of the world's leading authorities in human evolution, and a media and public highly interested in human-origins research. This international link – simultaneously pr…
Progress in life's history
This paper examines the tension between Darwinian evolution and palaeontological research in Britain in the 1860-1914 period, looking at how three key promoters of Darwinian thinking - Thomas Henry Huxley, Edwin Ray Lankester and Alfred Russell Wallace - integrated palaeontological ideas and narratives of life's history into their public presentations of evolutionary theory. It shows how engagement with palaeontological science was an important p…
Jesuit Scientists and Mongolian Fossils
This essay examines the Mission paléontologique française of the 1920s, a series of scientific expeditions into the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia in which a team of Jesuit scholar-scientists worked with local collaborators to provide material for the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The case study shows that the global and colonial expansion of Western science in the early twentieth century provided space for traditional scientific institut…
Reconstructing an incomparable organism
Land, Mines, and Bones
This chapter considers the connections between histories of the earth sciences (and knowledges of the earth more generally) and African history. It argues there is great potential synergy between them, both fields providing cross-disciplinary and long-durational means of considering the history of knowledge and engagement with the earth, especially through different forms of conceptual, political, and economic power. This is followed across two s…
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