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- W3149733525 abstract "Britain's experience in the Boer War, as even enthusiastic supporters of that conflict conceded, was not an auspicious debut to the twentieth century. The early military disasters and protracted difficulties encountered in subduing a small, presumably inferior nation of stubborn farmers and herdsmen, stirred up serious doubts about the ability of the race to cope with the complex challenges it would surely confront in the decades ahead. Liberal imperialists and other advocates of 'national efficiency' were not alone in seeing signs of physical, mental, intellectual, even cultural and artistic deterioration, among important sectors of the population, which, in the closing years of Queen Victoria's reign, pointed to a decided waning of the extraordinary 'racial energy' that had carried imperial Britain to pre-eminence in the nineteenth century. The uninspiring performance of the armed forces in South Africa, following upon several years of agricultural and industrial depression, rural depopulation and mounting commercial and imperial competition from expansive new rivals, provoked a veritable orgy of criticism, enquiry and analysis focusing upon the alarming possibility that the race was somehow decaying. These anxieties, which persisted until muted by the outbreak of the First World War, were compounded by a growing awareness on the part of the Edwardians that their fertility was decidedly below that of their Victorian predecessors. The following pages examine the public debate about 'race' deterioration or decadence, as the more pessimistic feared, which preoccupied a substantial number of middleand upper-class politi-" @default.
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- W3149733525 title "Counting the Degenerates: The Statistics of Race Deterioration in Edwardian England" @default.
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