Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815

In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutions within which these ideas were articulated, Golf-French reveals their complex and idiosyncratic development in the work of the prominent-and controversial-historians August Ludwig Schlozer, Chri...