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New York: Berghahn Books, Date: 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 268 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Small corner bump on front top right corner. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout. Record # 471099 2006. Berghahn Books ISBN 1845451724 9781845451721 [US]

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ISBN10: 1845451724, ISBN13: 9781845451721, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 1845451724, ISBN13: 9781845451721, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover Offers a study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America. This book looks at the career of physician Alexis Carrel, as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: JHBD; PSAK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531. . 2006. 0th Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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