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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Eastbourne :
Sussex Academic Press,
2010.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.4116440 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781837642083 1837642087 9781845194154 |