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Picture Imperfect Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940.

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 v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maxwell, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
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