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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Chloe (Chloe Deborah Margaret) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Colección:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.