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Blood and Homeland : Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 / ed. by Marius Turda, Paul J. Weindling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (476 p.)Content type:
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  • 9786155211041
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9/2 22
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  • HQ755.5.E8 B56 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940: A Historiographic Overview -- Part I. Ethnography and Racial Anthropology -- German “Race Psychology” and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius -- From “Prisoner of War Studies” to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of “Others” in Austria -- Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The “Marienfeld Project” -- Of “Yugoslav Barbarians” and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia -- Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece -- Part II. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts -- Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900–1925 -- Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905–1939 -- The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910–1918 -- Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905–1940 -- The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia -- Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene -- Part III. Religion, Public Health and Population Policies -- “Moses als Eugeniker”? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland -- Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria -- From Welfare to Selection: Vienna’s Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime -- Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania -- Part IV. Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics -- Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania -- The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary -- Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe -- Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880–1939 -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940: A Historiographic Overview -- Part I. Ethnography and Racial Anthropology -- German “Race Psychology” and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius -- From “Prisoner of War Studies” to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of “Others” in Austria -- Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The “Marienfeld Project” -- Of “Yugoslav Barbarians” and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia -- Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece -- Part II. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts -- Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900–1925 -- Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905–1939 -- The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910–1918 -- Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905–1940 -- The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia -- Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene -- Part III. Religion, Public Health and Population Policies -- “Moses als Eugeniker”? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland -- Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria -- From Welfare to Selection: Vienna’s Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime -- Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania -- Part IV. Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics -- Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania -- The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary -- Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe -- Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880–1939 -- Index

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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.

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