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Paperback Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity Book

ISBN: 1477314962

ISBN13: 9781477314968

Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity

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Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019

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 characteristics," this strain...

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