In this paper, I follow the development of the classification scheme discussions closely through its formative decade, from the last years of the 1890s through about 1913, by which time three revealing publications close the prewar developments: the United States Immigration Commission's massive...

A vision of history: an examination of Professor Toynbee's ideas -- The Fertile Crescent in the eighteenth century -- Race, religion and nation state in the Near East -- The concept of race relations -- A moment of change: the crisis of 1956 -- The regulative principle

In this paper, I follow the development of the classification scheme discussions closely through its formative decade, from the last years of the 1890s through about 1913, by which time three revealing publications close the prewar developments: the United States Immigration Commission's massive...