Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola

ISBN-13: 9781108837866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Samuël Coghe

Opis

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

Recenzje

'The book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of medicine and the history of Angola. It also contributes to the histories of Portugal and of transimperial networks. It will find a ready audience not only among researchers but also as a classroom addition for students in courses on medical, imperial, global, European, and African history.' Deborah Neill, H-Soz-Kult

Spis treści

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.