Breeding better Vermonters : the eugenics project in the Green Mountain State / Nancy L. Gallagher.

This work examines social, ethnic and religious tensions and reveals how population studies, theories of human heredity, and a rhetoric of altruism became subtle, tools of social control and exclusion in a state whose motto was freedom and unity.

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Main Author: Gallagher, Nancy L., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [1999]
Series:Revisiting New England.
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Call Number: HQ755.5.U5 G35 1999
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