Anthropological History of Europe

John Beddoe was Britain's foremost anthropologist who specialized in the study of race and racial origins. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the art of craniology, or the study of skull shapes in relation to race. This book, compiled from a series of lectures delivered in Edinburgh, provides a sweeping view of European racial history from Russia to Iceland, and from Scandinavia to Sicily. It includes an analysis of the different European sub-races, the "Aryan origin" theory, an overview of European Jewry, and a fascinating conclusion outlining what he saw as the racial future.