Overview: First book to consider the history of eugenics within British colonial contexts.Offers a comparative approach to the history of eugenics movements in four British colonies: New Zealand, Australia, Can.This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and agra
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