Fertility, family, and social welfare between France and empire : the colonial politics of population / Margaret Cook Andersen, Melissa K. Byrnes, editors.
Anderson, Margaret Cook, editor.; Byrnes, Melissa K., editor.
2023
JV1811
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Title Fertility, family, and social welfare between France and empire : the colonial politics of population / Margaret Cook Andersen, Melissa K. Byrnes, editors.
ISBN 9783031260247 (electronic bk.)
3031260244 (electronic bk.)
9783031260230
3031260236
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26024-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-26024-7 doi
Call Number JV1811
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.44
Summary This rich collection of chapters covers an impressively broad range of locales from Pondicherry and Cambodia to Marseille and Runion, among others. Each of the essays draws on meticulous archival research to bring us some of the most innovative scholarship in the field of French Studies today. This collections astounding chronological scope provides us with more than four centuries of history and its global approach gives us a birds-eye view of empires most intimate interventions. Jessica Lynne Pearson, Associate Professor of History, Macalester College, USA This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a broad period from the first colonial empires that existed prior to 1830, the new imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, and the afterlives of colonial regimes in France and newly-independent states. Building on recent scholarship, this volume examines the extension of imperialism into the post-colonial period. The chapters examine a range of topics developing our understanding of the reasons why colonial states saw the family as a site for biopolitical intervention. The authors argue that experts built a racialised body of knowledge about colonial populations through census data and medical understandings of problems such as child mortality and infertility. They show that by analysing and compiling data on fertility, population growth (or decline), and health, this fuelled interventions designed to ensure a stable workforce, and that protecting children and mothers, vaccinating vulnerable populations, and creating modern, sanitary housing were all initiatives also aimed at serving larger goals of preserving colonial rule. Finally, the book shows that social welfare projects during the French Empire reflected concerns about race, differential fertility, and migration that continued well after decolonisation. Margaret Andersen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the USA. Melissa K. Byrnes is Professor of History at Southwestern University, in the USA.
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Added Author Anderson, Margaret Cook, editor.
Byrnes, Melissa K., editor.
Series New directions in welfare history.
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Intro
Series Foreword for Margaret Cook Andersen and Melissa K. Byrnes, eds., Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire: The Colonial Politics of Population
Praise for Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
1 Introduction
2 Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660-1787
Children of the State
1660s: The Soldier-Settler in French Canada
1680s: Vauban Considers the Soldier-Settler
1760s: The Soldier-Settler Confronts Military Loss

Religious Liberty After 1763
Conclusion
3 Pensioning Pondichéry's Enfants and Orphelins: Social Welfare and the French East India Company in Eighteenth-Century French India
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II
III
4 "Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen": Gender and the Politics of Race on Revolution-Era Bourbon Island
Defending Whiteness
Whiteness Through Marriage
Marriage Politics and the Revolution
Conclusion
Appendix: Documented Marriages Between Blancs and Libres
5 Lipiodol and Fertility Medicine in Interwar Colonial Algeria
Lipiodol and Fertility Medicine

Dr. Laffont and the Sterility Clinic of Algiers
Race, Gender, and Fertility Medicine
Race, Medicine, and the Origins of Infertility in the Colony
Fertility Medicine in Colonial Morocco
Infertility and France's Civilizing Mission
Conclusion
6 Rituals of the Matrice: Maternal and Infant Protection in French Colonial Cambodia
Conceiving the Oeuvre
Prenatal Care
Early Pains of Colonial Obstetrics
At the Roume Maternity
Attacks from Across the Tonle
Conclusion
7 The Colonial Origins of Mass Prophylaxis as a Public Health Panacea
Introduction

The Interwar Social Hygiene Problem and Its Pastorian Solution
The Production of a Successful Yellow Fever Campaign
From Colonial to International Mass Campaigns
Conclusion
8 Categorizing the Maghrib: How Census Data, Demography, and Population Studies Facilitated Governance Strategies and Public Messaging in Colonial and Postcolonial North Africa
French Imperial Censuses and Data Gathering in North Africa
Demography and One-Party Politics in Tunisia
Population Politics and the 1960 Census in Morocco
The 1966 Census and the Prominent Role of Social Science in Algeria

Conclusion
9 Modernizing Migrants: Welfare and the Postwar Transformation of Marseille's African Communities
Preserving Marseille's African Workers
Making Space for Marseille's African Workers
Forging Post-Imperial Lives and Spaces
10 Criminal Fertility: Policing North African Families After Decolonization
Policing Racial Deviance
Planning the Imperial Family
Securing Thresholds
Crime, Disorder, and Demography in Villeurbanne
Conclusion
11 Inessential Labor: Reproduction, Work, and Algerian Family Migration After Independence
The Family in Migration

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