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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777660003321

Titolo

Blood and homeland [[electronic resource] ] : eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 / / edited by Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Central European University Press, 2006

ISBN

978-615-5211-04-1

9786155211041

978-6-15521-104-1

615-5211-04-3

1-281-26868-2

9786611268688

1-4294-2225-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TurdaMarius

WeindlingPaul

Disciplina

363.9/2

Soggetti

Eugenics - Europe, Central - History - 20th century

Eugenics - Balkan Peninsula - History - 20th century

Racism - Europe, Central - History - 20th century

Racism - Balkan Peninsula - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Europe, Central - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Balkan Peninsula - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900- 1940: A Historiographic Overview; German "Race Psychology" and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius; From "Prisoner of War Studies" to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of " Others" in Austria; Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The " Marienfeld Project"; Of "Yugoslav Barbarians" and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia



Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar GreeceEugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900- 1925; Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905- 1939; The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910- 1918; Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905- 1940*; The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia; Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene

"Moses als Eugeniker"? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar PolandEugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria; From Welfare to Selection: Vienna's Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime*; Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania; Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin- de- Siècle Romania; The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary*; Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe

Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880- 1939Index

Sommario/riassunto

The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been marginalized and rated as incompatible with local national traditions in Central and Southeast Europe. These topics receive a new treatment here. On the one hand, the historiographic perspective connects developments in the history of anthropology and eugenics with political ideologies such as racial nationalism and anti-Semitism; on the other hand, it contests the 'Sonderweg' approach adopted by scholars dealing with these issues.