Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State

by Nancy L. Gallagher

Book Overview

Eugenics -- the study of human racial progress through selective breeding -- frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immigrant persecution, and Nazi genocide, but Vermont's little known adventure in eugenics shows the inherent adaptability of eugenics theory and methods to parochial social justice. Beginning with genealogies of Vermont's rural poor in the 1920s, and concluding in the 1930s with an expos of ethnic prejudice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874519527
• ISBN13: 9780874519525
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"