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Eugenics at the Edges of Empire : New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa / edited by Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse, Hamish G. Spencer.

Paul, Diane B., editor.; Stenhouse, John, editor.; Spencer, Hamish G., editor.
2018
JV61-JV152
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Title
Eugenics at the Edges of Empire : New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa / edited by Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse, Hamish G. Spencer.
ISBN
9783319646862
3319646869
3319646850
9783319646855
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 320 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2 doi
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JV61-JV152
Dewey Decimal Classification
325.3
Summary
This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the way -- if they were protected from internal and external threat. This volume contributes to the increasingly comparative and international literature on the history of eugenics and to several ongoing historiographic debates, especially around issues of race. As white-settler societies, questions related to racial mixing and purity were inescapable, and a notable contribution of this volume is its attention to Indigenous populations, both as targets and on occasion agents of eugenic ideology.
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Spencer, Hamish G., editor.
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1. Introduction, Eugenics as a Transnational Subject: The British Dominions; Diane B. Paul, John Stenhouse and Hamish G. Spencer
2. "The Liberty of the Nation": The Limits of Illiberalism: Eugenics in Australia and New Zealand; Stephen Garton
3. Eugenics in Canada:Choice, Coercion and Context; Erika Dyck
4. The Nature of Eugenic Thought and Limits of Eugenic Practice in Inter-War Saskatchewan; Alexander Deighton
5. Eugenic Sterilization in New Zealand: The Story of the Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928; Hamish G. Spencer
6. Debating Clause 21: 'Eugenic Marriage' in New Zealand; Angela Wanhalla
7. Undesirable Bill's Undesirables Bill: William Pember Reeves and Early Eugenics in New Zealand; John Stenhouse
8. Thinking Dangerous Thoughts: Post-primary Education and Eugenics in Australia: 1905-1939; Ross L. Jones
9. 'Of Eugenic Interest'? Baby Shows before the Great War; Caroline Daley
10. Sir Robert Stout as Freethinker and Eugenics Enthusiast; Emma Gattey
11. Revisiting Three Eugenic Moments: 1903, 1928, 1937: The Disappointments and Hopes of Antipodean Progressives; Charlotte Macdonald
12. Truby King, Infant Welfare, and the Boundaries of Eugenics; Diane B. Paul
13. 'Aristocrats of Knowledge': Māori Anthropologists and the Survival of the 'Race'; Barbara Brookes
14. Eugenics and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Modern South Africa; Susanne M. Klausen.

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