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Eugenics at the Edges of Empire : New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Springer [distributor
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9783319646855
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Social Science, Gender Studies
Updated
2026-03-25

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