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Author:
Cogdell, Christina.
Title:
Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s / Christina Cogdell.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
c2004
Description:
xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Eugenics--History--United States--History--20th century.
Design--History--United States--History--20th century.
Aerodynamics--History--United States--History--20th century.
Design, Industrial--History--United States--History--20th century.
Genetics--History--United States--History--20th century.
Racism--United States--History--20th century.
Eugenics--history--United States.
Equipment Design--history--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Prejudice--United States.
Social values--United States.
Eugénisme--Histoire--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Design--Histoire--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Aérodynamique--Histoire--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Design--Histoire--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
United States--Race relations.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
États-Unis--Civilisation--1918-1945.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.
États-Unis--Conditions sociales--1933-1945.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-312) and index.
Contents:
Controlling evolution -- Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology -- Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s -- "Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design -- Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization -- Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type" -- Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?
ISBN:
9780812238242 (cloth : alk. paper)
0812238249 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)55067595
LCCN:
2004049499
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

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