University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Disciplining the future. Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania
Abstract
dc:description"Eugenics, the ideology of controlling the quality and quantity of the human species found many adepts in Romania during the interwar period. They brought to life their various interpretations of eugenics in many embodiments, from programs for physical education and better nutrition, to movements to segregate and even eliminate Jews and other ""dysgenic"" populations, such as criminals and prostitutes. Proponents of eugenics used their significant roles in public life to popularize theories of hereditary determinism in the realms of intellectual discourse and social reform. They offered a path towards modernization which would conserve vital elements of the past while embracing the future. Their synthesis of tradition and modernization helped negotiate the apparently irreconcilable debates during the interwar period between traditionalist conservatives and their opponents--the Europeanizing modernists."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History, European
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bucur, Maria
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Hitchins, Keith
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1996 Bucur, Maria
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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9780591197501
AAI9712209
(UMI)AAI9712209 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23842