This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of
the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South
Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from
the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared
to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their
orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and
agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and
enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the way - if
they were protected from internal and external threat. This volume
contributes to the increasingly comparative and international
literature on the history of eugenics and to several ongoing
historiographic debates, especially around issues of race. As
white-settler societies, questions related to racial mixing and
purity were inescapable, and a notable contribution of this volume
is its attention to Indigenous populations, both as targets and on
occasion agents of eugenic ideology.
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