Samuel Coghe

Population Politics in the Tropics (eBook, PDF)

Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108950268
• Artikelnr.: 70912887

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.