The Conquest of a Continent

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The Conquest of a Continent is a 1933 book by American eugenicist and conservationist Madison Grant that promotes racist, nativist theories about European immigration and the shaping of the United States.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
author Madison Grant NERFINISHED
authorOccupation conservationist
eugenicist
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedFor antisemitism
promotion of eugenics
racism
xenophobia
describes shaping of the United States by European ethnic groups
genre nativist literature
political literature
racist literature
hasForm prose
hasPerspective Nordic superiority
anti-immigration
historicalContext interwar period in the United States
ideology eugenics
scientific racism
white supremacy
influencedBy Nordicist racial theories
early 20th-century eugenics movement
intendedAudience American policymakers and elites
language English
mainSubject American nationalism NERFINISHED
European immigration to the United States
Nordicism NERFINISHED
eugenics
race theory
notableFor influence on American nativist thought
use of pseudo-scientific racial classifications
politicalPosition far-right
nativist
promotes nativist theories
racist theories
publicationYear 1933
relatedWork The Passing of the Great Race NERFINISHED
setIn United States of America
surface form: United States
timePeriodDescribed history of European settlement in North America

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Madison Grant notableWork The Conquest of a Continent