From bad to worse
Raymond Fancher, 8 March 1990
Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1918
by Daniel Pick.
Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, October 1989,0 521 36021 8 Show More
by Daniel Pick.
Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, October 1989,
Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870-1945
by Paul Weindling.
Cambridge, 641 pp., £55, October 1989,0 521 36381 0 Show More
by Paul Weindling.
Cambridge, 641 pp., £55, October 1989,
“... More than three centuries ago. Sir Thomas Browne noted ‘the humour of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present’. He added that these nostalgic declaimers seem always to have been present, and indeed one can find notable examples of them from virtually all periods of human history ... ”