Eugenics at the Edges of Empire New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa /

This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and S...

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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Imperialism.
Social history.
History.
ISBN:9783319646862
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction, Eugenics as a Transnational Subject: The British Dominions; Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse and Hamish G. Spencer
  • 2. "The Liberty of the Nation": The Limits of Illiberalism: Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand; Stephen Garton
  • 3. Eugenics in Canada:Choice, Coercion and Context; Erika Dyck
  • 4. The Nature of Eugenic Thought and Limits of Eugenic Practice in Inter-War Saskatchewan; Alexander Deighton
  • 5. Eugenic Sterilization in New Zealand: The Story of the Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928; Hamish G. Spencer
  • 6. Debating Clause 21: 'Eugenic Marriage' in New Zealand; Angela Wanhalla
  • 7. Undesirable Bill's Undesirables Bill: William Pember Reeves and Early Eugenics in New Zealand; John Stenhouse
  • 8. Thinking Dangerous Thoughts: Post-primary Education and Eugenics in Australia: 1905-1939; Ross L. Jones
  • 9. 'Of Eugenic Interest'? Baby Shows before the Great War; Caroline Daley
  • 10. Sir Robert Stout as Freethinker and Eugenics Enthusiast; Emma Gattey
  • 11. Revisiting Three Eugenic Moments: 1903, 1928, 1937: The Disappointments and Hopes of Antipodean Progressives; Charlotte Macdonald
  • 12. Truby King, Infant Welfare, and the Boundaries of Eugenics; Diane B. Paul
  • 13. 'Aristocrats of Knowledge': Māori Anthropologists and the Survival of the 'Race'; Barbara Brookes
  • 14. Eugenics and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Modern South Africa; Susanne M. Klausen. .

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