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Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-century Britain
Richard Allen Soloway
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Paperback. Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JHBD; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 712.
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that ""like tends to beget like,"" eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction. Soloway shows that the appeal of eugenics to the middle and upper classes of British society was closely linked to recurring concerns about the relentless drop in fertility and the rapid spread of birth control practices from the 1870s to World ... Read more
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that ""like tends to beget like,"" eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction. Soloway shows that the appeal of eugenics to the middle and upper classes of British society was closely linked to recurring concerns about the relentless drop in fertility and the rapid spread of birth control practices from the 1870s to World ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807845547
SKU
V9780807845547
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About Richard Allen Soloway
Richard A. Soloway is Eugen Merzbacher Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930.
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