Eugenic design: streamlining america in the 1930s
Auteur :
Cogdell, Christina
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812221220
Date de publication :
23 juil. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could-and should-be cultivated through selective breeding.