Race and Empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya /
This book tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. Through...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2007.
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Colección: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; General editor's introduction; 1 Introduction: Nellie's dance; 2 British eugenics, empire and race; 3 Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics; 4 Metropolitan responses; 5 Settler attitudes to eugenics and race; 6 Biology, development and welfare; 7 Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empire; Abbreviations in notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.