Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire The Colonial Politics of Population
“This rich collection of chapters covers an impressively broad range of locales— from Pondicherry and Cambodia to Marseille and Réunion, 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. Th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | New Directions in Welfare History
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction;. Margaret Cook Andersen and Melissa K. Byrnes
- 2. Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660-1787; Robert Scafe and Jennifer J. Davis
- 3. Pensioning Pondicherry’s Enfants and Orphelins: Social Welfare and the French East India Company in Eighteenth-century French India; Jakob Burnham
- 4. “Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen”: Gender and the Politics of Race on Revolution-Era Bourbon Island; Nathan Marvin
- 5. Lipiodol and Fertility Medicine in Interwar Colonial Algeria; Margaret Cook Andersen
- 6. Rituals of the Matrice: Maternal and Infant Protection in French Colonial Cambodia; Tara Tran
- 7. The Colonial Origins of Mass Prophylaxis as a Public Health Panacea; Aro Velmet
- 8. Categorizing the Maghrib: How Census Data, Demography, and Population Studies Facilitated Governance Strategies and Public Messaging in Colonial and Postcolonial North Africa; Jennifer Johnson
- 9. Modernizing Migrants: Welfare and the Transformation of Marseille’s African Communities; Gregory Valdespino
- 10. Criminal Fertility: Policing North African Families after Decolonization; Melissa K Byrnes
- 11. Inessential Labour: Reproduction, work, and Algerian Family Migration after Independence; Elise Franklin.