Landscaping the human garden : twentieth-century population management in a comparative framework
This work constitutes an attempt to study a number of significant efforts by 20th century states to reshape - either through social policy or brute force, their societies and their populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility
Print Book, English, 2003
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2003
Conference papers and proceedings
xi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804746229, 9780804746304, 0804746222, 0804746303
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Introduction: landscaping the human garden / Amir Weiner
State violence as technique : the logic of violence in Soviet totalitarianism / Peter Holquist
The transformation of state and society in World War I Germany / Elisabeth Domansky
Corporatism or democracy : the Russian Provisional Government of 1917 / Daniel Orlovsky
The dead and the unborn : French pronatalism and the abortion law of 1920 / Mary Louise Roberts
"More masculine men, more feminine women" : the iconography of Nazi racial hatreds / Claudia Koonz
Defining enemies, making victims : Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust / Omer Bartov
When memory counts : war, genocide, and postwar Soviet Jewry / Amir Weiner
Social Darwinism versus social engineering : the education of Japanese Americans during World War II / Gordon H. Chang
How to construct a productive, disciplined, monoethnic Society : the dilemma of east central European governments, 1914-1956 / István Deák
Ethnic cleansing between war and peace / Norman M. Naimark
Female images in a state of war : the Israeli war widow in fiction and film / Yael Zerubavel
"This volume grew out of a workshop held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, on March 28-29, 1997"--Page [xiii]