Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

by Adam Rutherford

Book Overview

Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics looms large today, suffusing our language and culture and echoing uneasily in discussions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324035609
• ISBN13: 9781324035602
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"