The Mythology of the Aryan Nations

A new edition, complete in one volume.  xxviii, 594pp.  Half bound in brown leather over green cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering and decorations.  Top edge gilt.  Marbled endpapers.  8vo.  Boards rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, with a chip and bump to upper leading corner.  A little worn, gently rubbed around a dry spine.  Text block edges a little spotted.  Front hinge cracked, with a few small signs of bookplate removal on front paste down.  Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper verso.  Pages a little toned around margins, with some tanning in margins of first and last few leaves.  Some occasional pencilled marginal marks and annotations else internally neat.  Firmly bound and robust. A work first publised, in two volumes n 1870, this 1903 edition is complete in one volume. The concept of Aryan mythology is a pseudoscientific racial theory that emerged in the 19th century, claiming a distinct and superior Aryan race descended from Proto-Indo-Europeans. This ideology of racial supremacy has been adopted and distorted by various racially motivated groups, most notably Nazi Germany, to justify violent extremism and racial prejudice.  Cox explores the alleged origins and development of Aryan Mythology.