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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454939603321

Autore

Quine Maria Sophia

Titolo

Population politics in twentieth-century Europe : fascist dictatorships and liberal democracies / / Maria Sophia Quine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-89422-8

1-280-21803-7

0-203-41059-9

0-203-32000-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Historical connections

Disciplina

304.6094

363.9/0945

363.90945

Soggetti

Demography

Electronic books.

Italy Population policy

France Population policy

Germany Population policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-150) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe Fascist dictatorships and liberal democracies; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Fears of 'over-population' and 'depopulation' in the nineteenth century; 1 From Malthus to Mussolini: Fascist Italy's 'battle for births'; 2 Fathers of the nation: French pronatalism during the Third Republic; 3 Nazi population policy: pronatalism and antinatalism during the Third Reich; 4 Conclusion: the politics of race and population in the twentieth century; Bibliography; Other sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population politics of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialisation.