Modernism and Eugenics

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turda, Marius
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Series:Modernism and …
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation
Physical Description:XV, 189 p online resource
ISBN:9780230281332