"Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940Marius Turda, Paul Weindling The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been marginalized and rated as incompatible with local national traditions in Central and Southeast Europe. These topics receive a new treatment here. On the one hand, the historiographic perspective connects developments in the history of anthropology and eugenics with political ideologies such as racial nationalism and anti-semitism; on the other hand, it contests the 'Sonderweg' approach adopted by scholars dealing with these issues. |
Contents
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Interwar Vienna The Marienfeld Project | 51 |
Of Yugoslav Barbarians and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia | 79 |
Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece | 119 |
Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands 19001925 | 141 |
Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland 19051939 | 163 |
Friedrich Hertz Hugo litis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene | 259 |
Medical Circles in Interwar Poland | 279 |
Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria | 295 |
Viennas Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime | 313 |
Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania | 331 |
Culturalist Nationalism and AntiSemitism in FindeSiecle Romania | 349 |
Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary | 371 |
Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe | 385 |
The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary 19101918 | 181 |
Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria 19051940 | 219 |
The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia | 249 |
Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration 18801939 | 413 |
Index | 453 |
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