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Covering from the early 1200's up through the early 1900's and the \"GREAT WAR\". Hendrik Willem Van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and illustrator that fought the rising fascist scourge of the time and was banned by the Nazis from entering Germany. Condition is very good with minor loss on one of the old folds but not effecting printed area. 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A concise visual \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eintroduction to the diversity of the island, prior to the rise of the era of the Castro \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eregime. Includes in back a vast and beautiful folding map for the island. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition is good with light wear and toning of the paper covers. Some misfolds \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon the folding maps, but marginal. 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Meant to illustrate the diversity of humanity in conjunction with a large sculptural study funded by Dr Field, this simplistic overview became a huge point of controversy. Well prior to the genetic understanding of humans, this project made the terrible mistake of thinking phenotype and genotype were the same. For a century or so prior, there had been attempts to categorize humans by skin color and culture, some 19th century school geographies would show 5 types of humans, or perhaps it was stages of development, the articulation mostly remained unclear. This map was a kind of culmination, and end of this racial distinguished thinking. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e       But later, the great poet and activist, Amiri Baraka, was incensed by the map and \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erightly debunked it as a work of white pseudo science in a letter to Field Museum. 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