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_aBreeding: _cJenny Davidson _ba partial history of the eighteenth century / |
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_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2009. |
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_axviii, 292 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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_gIntroduction. _tBreeding Before Biology -- _gCh. 1. _tThe Rules of Resemblance -- _tWhy Children Look Like Their Fathers -- _tThe Rules of Resemblance -- _t"Nature's Bastards" -- _t"Her Royal Image Stampt on Thee" -- _gCh. 2. _tBent -- _tThe Blank Slate -- _tSinners by Descent -- _t"A Meer Errant Cat" -- _gCh. 3. _tCultures of Improvement -- _tDeucalion's Kin -- _t"A Living Magazine" -- _t"A Perfect Yahoo" -- _tThe Perfectibility Problem -- _t"Properties Descend!" -- _t"Ascertaining What Species Can Procreate Together" -- _tDifferences of Climate -- _t"The Management of Human Creatures" -- _tCrabs and Brambles -- _gCh. 4. _tA Natural History of Inequality -- _tThe Difference Between One Man and Another -- _t"We Are Born Twice Over" -- _t"Nature's Own Pencil" -- _tThe Natural Inequality of Man -- _t"A Purity, Which Coarts Doo Not Always Bestow" -- _gCh. 5. _tBlots on the Landscape -- _t"This Blot in Our Country Increases" -- _t"The Incessant Improveableness of the Human Species" -- _t"Encumbering the World With Useless and Wretched Beings" -- _gCh. 6. _tShibboleths -- _tShibboleths -- _tThe Blackmail of Enlightenment -- _tConclusion: The Promise of Perfection. |
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