"Blood and homeland" : eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 / edited by Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turda, Marius.

Weindling, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

Eugenics--Balkan Peninsula--History--20th century.

Racism--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Racism.

Racism--Balkan Peninsula--History--20th century.

Nationalism--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula--History--20th century.

History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 467 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. Moreover, national historiographies in Central and Southeast Europe have either marginalized eugenics and racial nationalism or deemed them incompatible with their respective national traditions. Accordingly, this volume has a two-fold ambition: to excavate the hitherto unknown eugenic movements in Central and Southeast Europe and to explain their relationship with racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism.

On the one hand, the historiographic perspective substantiated in this volume connects developments in the history of racial anthropology, genetics and eugenics with political ideologies such as racial nationalism and anti-Semitism; on the other hand, it contests the 'Sonderweg' approach adopted by scholars dealing these phenomena in Central and Southeast Europe by arguing that concerns with eugenics and race were as widely disseminated in these regions as they were in Western Europe and North America. Book jacket.

Contents:

Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling: Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940: A Historiographic Overview 1

Part I Ethnography and Racial Anthropology

Egbert Klautke: German "Race Psychology" and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius 23

Margit Berner: From "Prisoner of War Studies" to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of "Others" in Austria 41

Maria Teschler-Nicola: Volksdeutsche and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The "Marienfeld Project" 55

Rory Yeomans: Of "Yugoslav Barbarians" and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia 83

Sevasti Trubeta: Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece 123

Part II Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts

Michal Simunek: Eugenics, Social Genetics and Racial Hygiene: Plans for the Scientific Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900-1925 145

Magdalena Gawin: Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905-1939 167

Marius Turda: The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910-1918 185

Christian Promitzer: Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905-1940 223

Ken Kalling: The Self-Perception of a Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia 253

Paul J. Weindling: Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene 263

Part III Religion, Public Health and Population Policies

Kamila Uzarczyk: "Moses als Eugeniker"? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland 283

Monika Loscher: Eugenics and Catholicism in Interwar Austria 299

Herwig Czech: From Welfare to Selection: Vienna's Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Policies under the Nazi Regime 317

Maria Bucur: Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania 335

Part IV Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics

Razvan Paraianu: Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siecle Romania 353

Attila Pok: The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary 375

Aristotle A. Kallis: Racial Politics and Biomedical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe 389

Roger Griffin: Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880-1939 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789637326776

9637326774

9637326812

9789637326813

OCLC:

71810046