The Eugenic Fortress : : The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania / / Tudor Georgescu.

The ever growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation states, while this monograph asks why an ethnic minority, the Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in interwar Romania. The Eugenic Fortress investigates and unpacks the eugen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I. LOCATING AND DEFINING THE TRANSYLVANIAN SAXON EUGENIC DISCOURSE
  • CHAPTER II. ASSESSING THE DYSGENIC CRISIS: KEY CONCEPTS AND THESES IN ALFRED CSALLNER’S DEFINITION OF SAXON DEGENERATION
  • CHAPTER III. ALFRED CSALLNER IN SEARCH OF EUGENIC SOLUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL MEANS
  • CHAPTER IV. FASCIST VISIONS OF A EUGENIC FORTRESS: THE SELF-HELP’S ORIGINS AND RISE TO POWER, 1922–33
  • CHAPTER V. SAXON FASCISM IN POWER, 1933–40
  • CHAPTER VI. 1940 AND EVERYTHING AFTER
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • INDEX OF PLACES