Samuel Coghe (Freie Universitat Berlin)

Population Politics in the Tropics

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Produktbeschreibung

Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of multilingual archival research and comparative and transimperial perspectives, Samuël Coghe argues that colonial policy was driven by a persistent, but imprecise, idea of demographic crisis.

Produktdetails

• Global Health Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837866
• ISBN-10: 1108837867
• Artikelnr.: 62355070

Autorenporträt

Samuël Coghe is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sleeping sickness, depopulation anxieties and the emergence of population politics
2. Tropical medicine and sleeping sickness control before 1918
3. Introducing social medicine: Inter-imperial learning and the Assistência Médica aos Indígenas in the interwar period
4. Re-assessing population decline: Medical demography and the tensions of statistical knowledge
5. Saving the children: Infant mortality and the politics of motherhood
6. The problem of migration: Depopulation anxieties, border politics and the tensions of empire
Conclusion
Epilogue: Demography and population politics, 1945-1975
Bibliography
Index.