{"product_id":"race-and-the-third-reich-christopher-m-hutton-9780745631769","title":"Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of Volk","description":"Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human diversity in the Western tradition. Whilst Nazi race theory is commonly associated with the idea of a superior \"Aryan race\" and with the idealization of the Nordic ideal of blond hair, blue eyes and a \"long-skull\", Nazi race theorists, in common with their colleagues outside Germany, without exception denied the existence of an Aryan race. After 1935 official publications were at pains to stress that the term \"Aryan\" belonged to linguistics and was not a racial category at all. Under the influence of Mendelian genetics, racial anthropologists concluded that there was no necessary link between ideal physical appearance and ideal racial character. In the course of the Third Reich, racial anthropology was marginalized in favour of the rising science of human genetics. However, racial anthropologists played a key role in the crimes of the Nazi state by defining Jews and others as racial outsiders to be excluded at all costs from the body of the German Volk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher M. Hutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745631762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745631769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.32w x 1.08d","brand":"Christopher M. Hutton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086793126143,"sku":"9780745631769","price":72.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3f2eea7-6e13-46f5-b232-a06e55a05fca.jpg?v=1769096612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-and-the-third-reich-christopher-m-hutton-9780745631769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}