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Autore |
Stern Alexandra |
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Titolo |
Eugenic nation [[electronic resource] ] : faults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America / / Alexandra Minna Stern |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-76322-9 |
9786612763229 |
0-520-93866-6 |
1-59875-583-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Collana |
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American crossroads ; ; 17 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Eugenics - United States - History |
Eugenics - California - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco; 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the U.S.-Mexican Border; 3. Instituting Eugenics in California; 4. California's Eugenic Landscapes; 5. Centering Eugenics on the Family; 6. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960's; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts-for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979-as it explores the influence of eugenics on phenomena as varied as race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, tropical |
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