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  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The British Empire

    Sunrise to Sunset

    by Philippa Levine ...
    The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the bigger picture of empire.The experience of the British Empire was not limited to what happened ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Man's World

    by Charlotte Haldane ...
    Series series MIT Press / Radium Age
    In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman’s defiance make a difference?In the not-too-distant future, England’s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be “vocational mothers”—or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world’s most prominent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Eugenics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trans-Status Subjects

    Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

    by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera ...
    A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta—Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization. While much work has focused on the changes wrought by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tweeker Parade

    by Philippa LeVine ...
    This wickedly funny non-fiction book spans the 30-year career of (retired) DEA Special Agent Philippa LeVine. She spent the bulk of her early years in a clandestine lab group chasing methamphetamine cooks and tweekers. In salty sarcastic cop-speak, she provides a unique insight into investigating meth labs in San Diego, California during the 1980s biker heyday. Follow her through the investigation ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories

    by John Marriott ...
    Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900

    by Philippa Levine ...
    The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women’s movement that celebrated its female ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Women's Suffrage in the British Empire

    Citizenship, Nation and Race

    Edited by Ian Christopher Fletcher, Philippa Levine, Laura E. Nym Mayhall ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Prostitution, Race and Politics

    Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

    by Philippa Levine ...
    In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these laws in four colonial sites between the 1860s and the end of the First World War, Philippa Levine ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Burdens of History

    British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

    by Antoinette Burton ...
    In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD