Race and Empire - Eugenics in Colonial Kenya

Informationen zum Autor Chloe Campbell works in publishing Klappentext The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s! unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Nellie's Dance2. British eugenics, race and empire3. Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics4. Metropolitan responses5. Settler attitudes to eugenics and race6. Biology, development and welfare7. Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empireBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Campbell
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9780719071614
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7161-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous