Picture Imperfect : Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940.

Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was v...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Maxwell, Anne
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.4116440
الوصف
الملخص:Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the eugenics movement's success.
وصف المادة:Description based upon print version of record.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (305 p.)
ردمك:9781837642083
1837642087
9781845194154