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Picture imperfect : photography and eugenics 1870-1940 / Anne Maxwell

Author
Maxwell, Anne, 1951-
Published
Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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Contents
Racial-type photographs in the Colonial period -- The degenerate face: nineteenth-century prison photographs -- The eugenics movement begins : Galton and the races of Britain -- Building a healthy nation : eugenic images in the United States, 1890-1935 -- Creating the master race: photography and the racial selection in Germany --Sub-human versus the master race: racial-type photographs and Nazi party propaganda -- Eugenics under fire: the racial-type imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden.
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ISBN
9781845192396 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1845192397 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-278) and index.
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