Eugenics in the Garden : : Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity / / Fabiola López-Durán.
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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