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Racisms: from the Crusades to the twentieth century By Francisco Bethencourt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 444. Hardback £31.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15526-5; paperback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16975-0.

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Racisms: from the Crusades to the twentieth century By Francisco Bethencourt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 444. Hardback £31.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15526-5; paperback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16975-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Benjamin Isaac*
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University, Israel E-mail: isaacb@post.tau.ac.il

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1 Delacampagne, C., L’Invention du racisme. Antiquité et Moyen Age, Paris: Fayard, 1983 Google Scholar; Buell, D. K., Why this new race: ethnic reasoning in early Christianity, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004 Google Scholar; Goldenberg, D., The curse of Ham: race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004 Google Scholar; Eliav-Feldon, M., Isaac, B., and Ziegler, J., The origins of racism in the West, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 Google Scholar, notably the papers by Goldenberg, D., Buell, D. K., Bartlett, R., Biller, P., de Miramon, C., Nirenberg, D., Po-Chia Hsia, R., and Pagden, A.; recently McCoskey, D. E., Race: Antiquity and its legacy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 Google Scholar.

2 A small selection of significant works that are not mentioned: L. Poliakov, The Aryan myth: a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, trans. E. Howard, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996 (translation of the French from 1971); Poliakov, L., Le Racisme, Paris: Seghers, 1976 Google Scholar; Banton, M., The idea of race, London: Tavistock Publications, 1977 Google Scholar; Memmi, Albert, Le Racisme. Description, définition, traitement, Paris: Gallimard, 1982 Google Scholar; Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Menozzi, Paolo, and Piazza, Alberto, The history and geography of human genes, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994 Google Scholar; Bulmer, Martin and Solomos, John, eds., Racism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999 Google Scholar; Bernasconi, R. and Lott, T. L., eds., The idea of race, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub. Co., 2000 Google Scholar; Delacampagne, C., Une histoire du racisme. Des origines à nos jours, Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2000 Google Scholar (trans. into German by Ursula Vones-Liebenstein as Die Geschichte des Rassismus, Düsseldorf: Artemis und Winkler, 2005; Brace, C. Loring, ‘Race’ is a four-letter word: the genesis of the concept, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 Google Scholar.