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1923
ISBN/GTIN

1923

The Crisis That Led to Hitler's Coup
PaperbackPaperback
EUR19,50

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The astonishing story of one of the most significant years in modern European history.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5293-6074-5
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
Publishing date18/01/2024
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 127 mm, Height 196 mm, Thickness 36 mm
Weight306 g
Article no.27777834
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A48156209
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

Mark William Jones is Assistant Professor in History at University College Dublin. He is among the leading English language historians of modern Germany and a recognized authority on the history of the Weimar Republic.

He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and Irish radio's Talking History. Mark was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Tübingen, and Cambridge University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and Bielefeld University. 1923 will be his first English language trade book.