For the Betterment of the Race: The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene - Couverture souple

Kühl, S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1137497009 ISBN 13 : 9781137497000

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

Racism, race hygiene, eugenics, and their histories have for a long time been studied in terms of individual countries, whether genocidal ideology in Nazi Germany or scientific racial theories in the United States. As this study demonstrates, however, eugenic racial policy and scientific racism alike had a strongly international dimension. Concepts such as a 'Racial Confederation of European Peoples' or a 'blonde internationalism' marked the thinking and the actions of many eugenicists, undergirding transnational networks that persist even today. Author Stefan Kühl provides here a historical foundation for this phenomenon, contextualizing the international eugenics movement in relation to National Socialist race policies and showing how intensively eugenicists worked to disseminate their beliefs throughout the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stefan Kühl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is the author of The Nazi Connection: American Racism and German National Socialism (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137497009
• ISBN 13: 9781137497000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
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