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The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Samuël Coghe is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Vorwort
The book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.
Zusatztext
'Impressively researched and cogently argued, Population Politics reframes understanding of African historical demography. Using new sources, Coghe shows how Portuguese fixation with African emigration shaped their competitive engagement in transimperial demographic networks; how Angolan policy was transformed by doctors' purposive data-gathering; and how local interventions were mediated by African agency.' Shane Doyle, University of Leeds
