Book 2010

Modernism and Eugenics

4.01 2 readers shelved it

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Published: 2010

Racism
Social Change
Eugenics
History, 19th Century
Prejudice
Politics
History, 20th Century
Nationalism

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.