@article{1484436,
      recid = {1484436},
      author = {Anderson, Margaret Cook, and Byrnes, Melissa K.,},
      title = {Fertility, family, and social welfare between France and  empire : the colonial politics of population /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484436},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26024-7},
}