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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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Hanover, NH :
University Press of New England,
[1999]
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Series: | Revisiting New England.
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HQ755.5.U5 G35 1999 |
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Status: | Available Request this item |