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American abyss

savagery and civilization in the age of industry

by Daniel E. Bender

2009 329 pages eng

"In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources -- eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen -- to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product o…

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