Demography and degeneration : eugenics and the declining birthrate in twentieth-century Britain / Richard A. Soloway ; with a new preface by the author
1990, First Edition. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #436774
ISBN: 0807818658
Physical description; xix, 443 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Turn of the Century -- Eugenics and the New Population Question -- Deterioration and Decline -- Class and the Religion of Race Culture -- Eugenics and Neo-Malthusianism -- Race-Motherhood -- The Dysgenics of War -- Eugenics and the Birth Control Movement, 1918-1930 -- Reform Eugenics, Population Research, and Family Planning, 1930-1939 -- Race Suicide Revisited: The Menace of Underpopulation "Are Our Children Today as Good as Their Grandfathers?" -- Family Planning and the Fear of Population Decline -- Feminism and Family Allowances -- World War II and the Population Question -- From Baby Boom to Birth Dearth. Subjects; 1900-1999. 20th century. Geschichte 1900-1990. Eugenics Great Britain History 20th century. Family size Great Britain History 20th century.
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