Description: How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.
Review Quotes: Exemplary.--Technology and Culture--
...illuminates our understanding of the history of fascism and the history of science in the twentieth century.
--American Historical Review--Saraiva examines how the breeding and growing of animals (pigs and sheep) and plants (potatoes, wheat, and coffee) helped to institutionalize fascism and contributed to the materialization of fascist ideology.
--Oxford Journal of Environmental History--