Chapter 1: Glory or contingencies: the 1939 High Committee and the establishment of a body for population *
Chapter 2: The "Phony War" and demographic police *
Chapter 3: The Vichy regime, biology and moralism *
Chapter 4: Population and political construction of a new society: the government of Algiers and Liberation *
Chapter 5: Demographic pressure and institutional creations: The hunt for "good migrants" *
Chapter 6: An Institute for Alfred Sauvy? *
Chapter 7: The Creation of a National Institute of Demography *
Chapter 8: The first research world *
Chapter 9 The Second Birth of Demography. A Transatlantic History *
Chapter 10: The Novelty of an Old Genre. Louis Henry and the Founding of Historical Demography *
Paul-André Rosental is a full professor at Sciences Po, in Paris. He leads the research team ESOPP, devoted to the history of social, demographic and health policies. He recently authored Destins de l'eugénisme, Le Seuil, 2016, and edited Silicosis. A World History, Johns Hopkins UP, 2017.
He has just achieved a ERC Advanced Grant project at the corner between history, social sciences and medicine.