Whither Away? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia’s National Decline

A Psychologist and A Physician [John Bostock and L. Jarvis Nye]

$55.00

Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Place Published: Sydney
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1934
Size: 8vo

The authors set out the reasons for their perceived decline in Australia as a healthy nation, locating the causes as diminishing birth rate (referencing birth-control) in the context of an expanding Asia, free medical service, ‘poor whites’, mental defectives, etc; further compares 1930’s Australia to late decadent Greece and Rome; heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, scattered foxing in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards rubbed/foxed, tanned to spine.

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