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Met lit. opg. en index. XIX, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Lit. opg.: p. 321-370.-Met reg. 383 p. ; 24 cm

"A report commissioned by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute and the Joint Working Group on Technology and Agrarian Development, Agricultural University, Wageningen." 61, [2] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index. x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Who was the scientific progenitor of eugenic thought? Amir Teicher challenges the preoccupation with Darwin's eugenic legacy by uncovering the extent to which Gregor Mendel's theory of heredity became crucial in the formation (and radicalization) of eugenic ideas. Through an analysis of the entrenchment of genetic thinking in the social and political policies in Germany between 1900 and 1948, Teicher ...

Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human diversity in the Western tradition. Whilst Nazi race theory is commonly associated with the idea of a superior "Aryan race" and with the idealization of the Nordic ideal of blond hair, blue eyes and a "long-skull", ...

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86 pages illustrations, charts, plate 24 cm

"Selection of articles from the pages of Northern World and Right magazines." 40 pages 24 cm

"Schrifttum" at end of each article. vi, 146 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-453). 458 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm