Format:
1 Online-Ressource (305 p.)
ISBN:
9781837642083
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1837642087
Content:
Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the eugenics movement's success
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Historical Context -- 2. Racial-type Photographs in the Colonial Period -- 3. The Degenerate Face: Nineteenth-Century Prison Photographs -- Part II Emergence of Eugenic Photography -- 4. The Eugenics Movement Begins: Galton and the Races of Britain -- 5. Building a Healthy Nation: Eugenic Images in the United States, 1890-1935 -- 6. Creating the Master Race: Photography and Racial Selection in Germany
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7. Sub-Human Versus the Master Race: Racial-type Photographs and Nazi Party Propaganda -- Part III Counter Images -- 8. Eugenics Under Fire: the Racial-type Imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845194154
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Maxwell, Anne Picture Imperfect Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2010 ISBN 9781845194154
Language:
English
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