George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis / Bradley W. Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Bradley W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977--Family.

Churchill, Clementine.

Pitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox, 1890-1966--Political and social views.

Pitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox.

Pitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox, 1890-1966.

Anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Antisemitism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Eugenics--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

Fascism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Fascism.

Gentry--Great Britain--Biography.

Gentry.

Politicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Politicians.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1936-1945.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be on track for a sterling academic career that might even have matched that of his grandfather, one of the most prominent archaeologists of his day. By the early 1930s, however, Pitt-Rivers had turned from his academic work to politics. Writing a series of books attacking international communism and praising the ideas of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Pitt-Rivers fell into the circles of the anti-Semitic far right. In 1937 he attended the Nuremberg Rally and personally met Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis. With the outbreak of war in 1940 Pitt-Rivers was arrested and interned by the British government on the suspicion that he might harm the war effort by publicly sharing his views, effectively ending his academic career. This book traces the remarkable career of a man who might have been remembered as one of Britain's leading 20th century anthropologists but instead became involved in a far-right milieu that would result in his professional ruin and the relegation of most of his research to margins of scientific history. At the same time, his wider legacy would persist far beyond the academic sphere and can be found to the present day.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A world destroyed

From Nietzsche to the Antipodes

Australia and the science of man

Eugenics and the science of population

Becky and the Nazis

"My Dear Cousin Clementine"

A world destroyed, again

Afterword: A life of contradictions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.

ISBN:

9781472569974

1472569970

9781474273145

1474273149

9781472569967

1472569962

OCLC:

923810226