THE INVENTION OF RACISM IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

Third printing. Publisher's original quarter black cloth and orange boards, in dustwrapper. With 16 black and white illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the tail of the spine, and a couple of small bumps to the bottom edge of the boards. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss or tears.

A groundbreaking work of social and intellectual history, author Benjamin Isaac explores the intellectual origins of racism by analysing the ancient social prejudices and stereotypes that inspired early modern authors of literature from classical Greece to late antiquity.