The African Madness. Is it a Political Epidemic? By Max Nordau
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Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Max S Nordau Asiatic Quarterly Review |
Subjects: | Imperialism, Degeneration |
In an article entitled 'Rabies Africana: The Degeneration of Europeans in Africa', Nordau claims that 'the zeal for annexing African territory is a veritable epidemic' that both harms the indigenous population and leads to the rapid degeneration of the European colonizers (155). | |
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