This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.

Based upon archival material newly available to researchers, this study follows the history of the eugenics movement from its roots in late 19th-century social

In 1911, influential geneticist Charles Davenport published "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics," advancing his ideas of how genetics would improve society in the

Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decade