The Need for Eugenic Reform
Title | The Need for Eugenic Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Darwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Birth control |
ISBN |
Eugenics
Title | Eugenics PDF eBook |
Author | Philippa Levine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Eugenics |
ISBN | 0199385904 |
A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
The Progress of Eugenics
Title | The Progress of Eugenics PDF eBook |
Author | James Alfred Field |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN |
The Field of Eugenic Reform
Title | The Field of Eugenic Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Darwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Eugenics |
ISBN |
Illiberal Reformers
Title | Illiberal Reformers PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Leonard |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2017-01-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691175861 |
In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not for all. Academic social scientists such as Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, and Edward A. Ross, together with their reform allies in social work, charity, journalism, and law, played a pivotal role in establishing minimum-wage and maximum-hours laws, workmen's compensation, progressive income taxes, antitrust regulation, and other hallmarks of the regulatory welfare state. But even as they offered uplift to some, economic progressives advocated exclusion for others, and did both in the name of progress. Leonard meticulously reconstructs the influence of Darwinism, racial science, and eugenics on scholars and activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing a reform community deeply ambivalent about America's poor. Economic progressives championed labor legislation because it would lift up the deserving poor while excluding immigrants, African Americans, women, and 'mental defectives, ' whom they vilified as low-wage threats to the American workingman and to Anglo-Saxon race integrity. Economic progressives rejected property and contract rights as illegitimate barriers to needed reforms. But their disregard for civil liberties extended much further. Illiberal Reformers shows that the intellectual champions of the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those they portrayed as hereditary inferiors, but to exclude them. -- Provided by publisher.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Bashford |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2010-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195373146 |
Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire, and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset. --
Preaching Eugenics
Title | Preaching Eugenics PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Rosen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 019515679X |
'Preaching Eugenics' tells how Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders confronted and, in many cases, enthusiastically embraced eugenics - a movement that embodied progressive attitudes about modern science at the time.