Fascist Pigs
Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
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- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2018
Summary
How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.
In the fascist regimes of Mussolini’s Italy, Salazar’s Portugal, and Hitler’s Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fasc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536158 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262536153 |
| Author: | Tiago Saraiva |
| Publisher: | Mit Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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Saraiva examines how the breeding and growing of animals (pigs and sheep) and plants (potatoes, wheat, and coffee) helped to institutionalize fascism and contributed to the materialization of fascist ideology.
-Oxford Journal of Environmental History …illuminates our understanding of the history of fascism and the history of science in the twentieth century.
-American Historical Review Exemplary.
-Technology and Culture
About The Author
Tiago Saraiva
Tiago Saraiva is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Drexel University and Associated Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
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