Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity

$18.00 CAD

pp. 401, previous owners name on FEP, “In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare — mostly church handouts and town asylums — into government-run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the “hereditary defectives” of the past.”

In stock

SKU: 309308 Category:

Book Information

ISBN 0375413715
ISBN13 9780375413711
Number of pages 401
Original Title Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
Published Date 2006
Book Condition very good
Jacket Condition very good
Binding hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication New York
Edition First edition
Category:
Author:
Publisher:

Description

pp. 401, previous owners name on FEP, “In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare — mostly church handouts and town asylums — into government-run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the “hereditary defectives” of the past.”

Additional information

Weight 1 kg