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The Brown Plague
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The Brown Plague

Travels in Late Weimar and Early Nazi Germany
PaperbackPaperback
EUR25,00

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"Gracefully translated and generously introduced by Robert Schwartzwald, Daniel Guerin's "The Brown Plague" is a major document of its time. Though it offers a glimpse into a Left political culture that has, today, largely receded from view, the book's significance is far from merely commemorative. In its utopian political commitments and suffused homoerotic tonalities, "The Brown Plague" imagines a future that could, perhaps, be ours as well."--Andrew Parker, coeditor of "Nationalisms and Sexualities"
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-1463-9
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date29/07/1994
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 154 mm, Height 234 mm, Thickness 14 mm
Weight363 g
Article no.28662560
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A1120277
Product groupBU942
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This is a highly readable and well put together introduction to eugenics's past and to its present. Overall, Rutherford writes engagingly and expertly on a subject that is central to his research and the place where he practises it (UCL, Rutherford's university, was at the forefront of early 20th century eugenics research). For me, the book is most interesting on the state of eugenics thinking today as Rutherford explains and unpacks some of the complicated moral quandaries now faced by the medical profession and parents alike when it comes to things like so-called designer babies. Above all what he brings out is the deep complexity of the science which makes our media-filtered understanding of the topic seem too simplistic for words.
There are just a few occasions (most notably in the historical section) when Rutherford's style can be too chummy and once or twice he could do with defining terms more clearly but overall this is an excellent introdution to a compley and emotive topic

Author

Daniel Guérin (1904-1988) was the author of over forty books on a range of subjects including anarchism, decolonization, European and American workers' movements, and the French Revolution. A pioneering gay activist, he was involved in both the postwar homophile movement and the struggles for liberation that followed in France after the upheavals of May 1968. Robert Schwartzwald is Associate Professor of French at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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