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‘Comprehensive, incisive, and authoritative, this ground-breaking book on East-Central European eugenics is essential reading. It establishes an entirely new geography through which we can understand and analyse the most important socio-scientific endeavour of the twentieth century. It will serve historians of eugenics and public health well for generations.’ Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, UK ‘An invaluable resource for scholars . . . This new focus on East Central European eugenics provides an important complement to the wealth of literature already existing on western European, Anglo-American and Latin American eugenics . . . a significant contribution to the primary source literature in an almost uncharted area in the history of eugenics.’ Garland Allen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA ‘This volume presents an eye-opening variety of eugenic ideas and visions. It demonstrates the great range of eugenics as a factor in social, cultural and political developments in the first half of the 20th century.’ Nils Roll-Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway ‘Essential reading for historians of eugenics.’ William deJong-Lambert, City University of New York This book redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages into English for the first time and key contributions from leading scholars in the field from around Europe. This volume examines the main eugenic organisations, as well as individuals and policies that shaped eugenics in Austria, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. It also explores the ways in which ethnic minorities interacted with national and international eugenics discourses to advance their own aims and ambitions, whilst providing a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of eugenics in East-Central Europe more generally. Complete with a glossary of terms, a list of all eugenic societies and journals in the region, as well as a comprehensive bibliography, The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 is a pivotal reference work for students, researchers and academics interested in East-Central Europe and the history of science and national identity in the 20th century. Marius Turda is Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Modernism and Eugenics (2010) and Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014). HISTORY www.bloomsbury.com 90100 9 781472 531759 ISBN 978-1-4725-3175-9 Cover design by Catherine Wood Cover image: ‘Eugenics and Heredity Exhibition’ by György. Gortvay © Wellcome Library, London Also available from Bloomsbury THE HISTORY OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN EUGENICS, 1900–1945 Sources and Commentaries Edited by MARIUS TURDA THE HISTORY OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN EUGENICS, 1900–1945 Edited by MARIUS TURDA

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‘An invaluable resource for scholars . . . This new focus on East Central European eugenics provides an important complement to the wealth of literature already existing on western European, Anglo-American and Latin American eugenics . . . a significant contribution to the primary source literature in an almost uncharted area in the history of eugenics.’Garland Allen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

‘This volume presents an eye-opening variety of eugenic ideas and visions. It demonstrates the great range of eugenics as a factor in social, cultural and political developments in the first half of the 20th century.’Nils Roll-Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway

‘Essential reading for historians of eugenics.’William deJong-Lambert, City University of New York

This book redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages into English for the first time and key contributions from leading scholars in the field from around Europe. This volume examines the main eugenic organisations, as well as individuals and policies that shaped eugenics in Austria, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. It also explores the ways in which ethnic minorities interacted with national and international eugenics discourses to advance their own aims and ambitions, whilst providing a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of eugenics in East-Central Europe more generally.

Complete with a glossary of terms, a list of all eugenic societies and journals in the region, as well as a comprehensive bibliography, The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 is a pivotal reference work for students, researchers and academics interested in East-Central Europe and the history of science and national identity in the 20th century.

Marius Turda is Reader in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Modernism and Eugenics (2010) and Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014).

history www.bloomsbury.com

90100

9 781472 531759

ISBN 978-1-4725-3175-9

Cover design by Catherine WoodCover image: ‘Eugenics and Heredity Exhibition’ by György. Gortvay © Wellcome Library, London

Also available from Bloomsbury

THe HiSTORY Of

eAST-CeNTRAL

eUROpeAN eUGeNiCS,

1900–1945

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