Title: The character of races as influenced by physical environment, natural selection and historical development,
Authors: Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons,
Year: 1924
Subjects: Ethnology; Human geography; Human beings Effect of environment on; Natural selection; Ethnology; Selection, Genetic
Contents: Racial character and natural selection -- First steps in human character -- The earliest great migrations -- Glaciation and the supremacy of Europe -- The suppression of America -- The classification of races -- The anomalies of aboriginal America -- The Asiatics who dwell in tents -- Jews, Armenians, and Turks -- Cycles of Chinese history -- North versus south in China -- The scourge of famine -- The selection of the Chinese -- The three great races of Europe -- The character of modern Europe -- The contrast between Greeks and Irish -- The dispersal of the Northmen -- Warlike Normans and peaceful Icelanders -- The persistence of a selected inheritance -- The direct effect of environment on character -- The selection of modern Americans -- The racial tendencies of civilization -- A racial test of cities, democracy, alnd feminism.