Catholicism, race and empire : eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 / Richard Cleminson.

Budapest : Central European University Press, [2014]

297 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductino -- The birth of eugenics in Portugal : early debates and the social and scientific context, 1900-1927 -- Between consolidation and institutionalisation : eugenics, Catholic opposition and the Salazar regime, 1927-1933 -- Apogee and decline : from the establishment of the eugenics society to dissolution into the centre for demographic studies, 1934-1960 -- Race, eugenics and miscegenation in the Portuguese metropole and overseas territories -- Conclusion.