| #1240213 in eBooks | 2016-10-07 | 2016-10-07 | File type: PDF||||This book earns its title. Fascist Pigs pushes beyond our familiar accounts of how scientific know-how was deformed by fascism. Tiago Saraiva's book documents the means by which German Nazis and Italian and Portuguese fascists bred their political
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 Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (Inside Technology) | Tiago Saraiva. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.