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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Maxwell, Anne
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.4116440
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Samenvatting: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.
Beschrijving item:Description based upon print version of record.
Fysieke beschrijving:1 online resource (305 p.)
ISBN:9781837642083
1837642087
9781845194154