This book shows how science, genetics and the improvement of animals and plants were fundamental to the formation and imperial expansion of the fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal and Germany.

An excellent gift for history buffs.

Tiago Saraiva is a professor in the history department at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has a degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico and a doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon from 2005 to 2012 and a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Berkeley. He is co-editor of the journal History and Technology and co-organizer of the Cambridge History of Technology.