The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans

Christopher M. Hutton is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His research concerns the history of linguistics, in particular the relationship between linguistics and race theory, as well as language and law. He is the author of several books, including The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning; The Legal Personhood of Animals; and Race and the Third Reich.