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_bDAV/B
100 1 _aDavidson, Jenny
245 1 0 _aBreeding:
_cJenny Davidson
_ba partial history of the eighteenth century /
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_cc2009.
300 _axviii, 292 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _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.
650 0 _aEnglish Literature
_xHistory and Criticism
650 0 _aBreeding
_zGreat Britain
_xPhilosophy
_xHistory
650 0 _aEducation and Heredity
_xPhilosophy
_xHistory
650 0 _aNature and Nurture
_zGreat Britain
_xPhilosophy
_xHistory
650 0 _aBreeding in Literature
650 0 _aHeredity in Literature
650 0 _aBiology in Literature
650 0 _aEugenics in Literature
650 0 _aEugenics
_xHistory
650 0 _aLiterature and science
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
942 _cWB16