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Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940

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Edited by Marius Turda
2006
Published by: Central European University Press
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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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Cover

pp. 1-3

Title Page

pp. 4-4

Copyright Page

pp. 5-5

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-8

List of Contributors

pp. viii-ix

Introduction: Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940: A Historiographic Overview

pp. 1-20

Part I: Ethnography and Racial Anthropology

pp. 21-142

German “Race Psychology” and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius

pp. 23-40

From “Prisoner of War Studies” to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of “Others” in Austria

pp. 41-53

Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The “Marienfeld Project”

pp. 55-82

Of “Yugoslav Barbarians” and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia

pp. 83-122

Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece

pp. 123-142

Part II: Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts

pp. 143-155

Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900–1925

pp. 145-166

Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905–1939

pp. 167-183

The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910–1918

pp. 185-221

Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905–1940

pp. 223-252

The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia

pp. 253-262

Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene

pp. 263-280

Part III: Religion, Public Health and Population Policies

pp. 281-350

“Moses als Eugeniker”? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland

pp. 283-297

Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria

pp. 299-316

From Welfare to Selection: Vienna’s Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime

pp. 317-333

Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania

pp. 335-350

Part IV: Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics

pp. 351-362

Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania

pp. 353-373

The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary

pp. 375-388

Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe

pp. 389-415

Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880–1939

pp. 417-456

Index

pp. 457-467

Back Cover

pp. 478-478
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