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Animal breeding and eugenics: Rhetoric masked fundamental differences in practice.
Ideology of Purity
Patterns in Animal Breeding and Eugenics, 1860-1920
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238 pages
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16 December 2025
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Summary
Ideology of Purity challenges the assumption that animal breeding has served as a reliable model for eugenics through a direct comparison of the views of eugenicists with those of animal breeders.
Eugenicists have cited animal breeding to justify their conceptions on human heredity and purity, misunderstanding the true meaning behind these principles and practices. Rather than accepting eugenic rhetoric at face value, this book examines how concepts like purity have been understood an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781487570323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1487570325 |
| Author: | Margaret E. Derry |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Imprint: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 238 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Margaret E. Derry
Margaret E. Derry is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Guelph.
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