| Book Review | Journal of World History, 18.2

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Book Review

Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World. Edited by PAUL SPICKARD. Routledge: New York, 2005. 392 pp. $95 (cloth); $37.50 (paper).
There is surprisingly little research produced by world historians that directly addresses the question of race. While the large historiographies on slavery and empire building cast some light on the global history of race as a social category, there have been few attempts to map systematically the divergent racial formations that have taken shape under modernity, yet alone to think about race as a significant phenomenon in world history at the broadest level. Here the contrast with work on gender is telling, as a diverse range of scholars from a variety of disciplinary (history, gender and women's studies, anthropology) and geographical locations are currently demonstrating that gender is an indispensable category of analysis for work on world history.	1
This collection of essays edited by Paul Spickard is an important attempt to think about the history of race within a global frame. The volume consists of an introduction by Spickard himself, seventeen chapters that examine an array of contexts from early nineteenth-century California to contemporary Khmer identity, from the early Turkish republic to contemporary Brazil, as well as an extensive and very useful bibliography. Taken as a whole, this collection is a significant addition to the field of world history, and because of the range of the case studies it examines it will certainly function as a valuable teaching text.	. . .

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