Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians

Author/Contributor(s):	Brantlinger, Patrick
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	01/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet...