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Writing the History of Middle Earth

Colin Kidd

  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-64 by J.G.A. Peacock
  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Peacock

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Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.

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