Author: Charles Benedict Davenport
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Report of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, September 1 to 28, 1921
Author: Charles Benedict Davenport
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics Held at American Museum of Natural History, New York, September 22-28, 1921. Committee on Publication
Author: Charles Benedict Davenport
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Scientific Papers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics Held at American Museum of Natural History, New York, September 22-28, 1921. Committee on Publication
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Publisher:
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Enchanted New York
Author: Kevin Dann
Publisher: Washington Mews Books/NYU Press
ISBN: 1479860220
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
Publisher: Washington Mews Books/NYU Press
ISBN: 1479860220
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
Unnatural Selections
Author: Daylanne K. English
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding. English's interdisciplinary approach brings together the work of those canonical writers with relatively neglected literary, social scientific, and visual texts. She examines antilynching plays by Angelina Weld Grimke as well as the provocative writings of white female eugenics field workers. English also analyzes the Crisis magazine as a family album filtering uplift through eugenics by means of photographic documentation of an ever-improving black race. English suggests that current scholarship often misreads early-twentieth-century visual, literary, and political culture by applying contemporary social and moral standards to the past. Du Bois, she argues, was actually more of a eugenicist than Eliot. Through such reconfiguration of the modern period, English creates an allegory for the American present: because eugenics was, in its time, widely accepted as a reasonable, progressive ideology, we need to consider the long-term implications of contemporary genetic engineering, fertility enhancement and control, and legislation promoting or discouraging family growth.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding. English's interdisciplinary approach brings together the work of those canonical writers with relatively neglected literary, social scientific, and visual texts. She examines antilynching plays by Angelina Weld Grimke as well as the provocative writings of white female eugenics field workers. English also analyzes the Crisis magazine as a family album filtering uplift through eugenics by means of photographic documentation of an ever-improving black race. English suggests that current scholarship often misreads early-twentieth-century visual, literary, and political culture by applying contemporary social and moral standards to the past. Du Bois, she argues, was actually more of a eugenicist than Eliot. Through such reconfiguration of the modern period, English creates an allegory for the American present: because eugenics was, in its time, widely accepted as a reasonable, progressive ideology, we need to consider the long-term implications of contemporary genetic engineering, fertility enhancement and control, and legislation promoting or discouraging family growth.
Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Report of the United States National Museum ...
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States National Museum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Report on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: United States National Museum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The Second International Exhibition of Eugenics Held September 22 to October 22, 1921, in Connection with the Second International Congress of Eugenics in the American Museum of Natural History, New York
Author: Harry Hamilton Laughlin
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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