TY - BOOK AU - Gobineau,Arthur,comte de AU - Levy,Oscar AU - Collins,Adrian TI - The inequality of human races AV - CB PY - 2023/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Ethnology KW - Race relations KW - Race KW - Civilization -- Philosophy N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Inequality_of_the_Human_Races; Release date is 2023-01-09; Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; United Kingdom: William Heinemann, 1915 N2 - "The inequality of human races" by comte de Arthur Gobineau is a racialist work published between 1853 and 1855. This French diplomat's essay argues that race determines world events, dividing humanity into three groups—white, yellow, and black—while claiming white races, particularly Nordic and Germanic peoples, represent humanity's pinnacle. Gobineau contends that civilizations decline through racial mixing, creating an influential early example of scientific racism that shaped racial theories across continents, though his ideas were often misunderstood and distorted by later movements. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/inequalityofhuma00gobi UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69751 ER -