Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Genesis: The Modern World System | |
Didot's Invention | p. 3 |
The Company of Strangers | p. 11 |
Created Equal | p. 19 |
Visual Truth | p. 23 |
Curiosity Cabinets | p. 31 |
Taxonomies of Human Difference | |
Physiognomy: The Science of First Impressions | p. 45 |
Hierarchies of Humanity | p. 59 |
Camper's Angle | p. 69 |
Tablier Rasa | p. 83 |
Spurzheim's Funeral | p. 101 |
Crania Americana | p. 109 |
An American Tale | p. 123 |
The Pencil of Nature | p. 151 |
Facial Politics | p. 169 |
The Costermonger's Tongue and Roget's Thesaurus | p. 183 |
Interlude | |
Reverberations of Change | p. 201 |
The Faces of Degeneration | |
Identifying the Group Within the Individual | p. 211 |
Finding the Individual Within the Group | p. 223 |
Criminal Types | p. 235 |
Nordic Nightmares | |
The Amazing Race | p. 257 |
Morons in Our Midst | p. 279 |
Eugenics Goes to the Fair | p. 313 |
The Modern Battlegrounds of Type | |
Dat Famous Chicken Debate | p. 327 |
Male and Female Created He Them | p. 357 |
The Return of the Repressed | p. 375 |
Writing History with Lightning | p. 401 |
Movable Types | p. 415 |
Persistence of Vision | p. 437 |
Tales of Before and After | p. 453 |
Coda | |
Recent Social Trends | p. 473 |
Notes | p. 499 |
Bibliography | p. 519 |
Index | p. 535 |
About the Authors | p. 557 |
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