{"title":"Robert Jarvenpa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Jarvenpa\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts compelling narratives rooted in history and military themes, offering readers a blend of meticulous research and engaging storytelling. His works often explore complex characters facing extraordinary circumstances, bringing depth and intensity to historical events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBooks like \u003cem\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/em\u003e showcase Jarvenpa’s ability to illuminate lesser-known aspects of military history with insight and empathy. Fans of historical drama and military intrigue will find his writing both thought-provoking and immersive.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"declared-defective-by-robert-jarvenpa-9781496246530","title":"Declared Defective","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of \u003ci\u003eThe Nam Family\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behaviour of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalised, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and been displaced from the frontiers of colonial expansion in western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Estabrook and Davenport's portrait of innate degeneracy was a grotesque mischaracterisation based on class prejudice and ignorance of the history and subculture of the people of Guilder Hollow. By bringing historical experience, agency, and cultural process to the forefront of analysis, Robert Jarvenpa illuminates the real lives and struggles of the Mohican Van Guilders, exposing the pseudoscientific zealotry and fearmongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933949214956,"sku":"9781496246530","price":97.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781496246530-declared-defective.jpg?v=1783886955"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/robert-jarvenpa.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}