{"product_id":"population-politics-in-the-tropics-demography-health-and-transimperialism-in-colonial-angola-paperback-softback-9781108932103","title":"Population Politics in the Tropics; Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108932103","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePopulation Politics in the Tropics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDemography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book analyses how depopulation anxieties and transimperial connections shaped medical, demographic and administrative interventions in Portuguese Angola.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSamuël Coghe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108932103, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A meticulously researched, thoughtfully written, and solidly argued book that contributes in important ways to the historiography on imperialism, science, medicine, migrations, and border policies in late colonial Africa. It is essential reading for students of the late Portuguese colonial empire. Scholars of colonialism and medicine in Africa more widely will find in this rich work valuable insights and a source of comparative inspiration.' Ricardo Roque, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePopulation Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on the history of colonial Angola, showing how population policies were conceived, implemented and contested. He analyses why and how doctors, administrators, missionaries and other colonial actors tried to grasp and quantify demographic change and 'improve' the health conditions, reproductive regimes and migration patterns of Angola's 'native' population. Coghe argues that these interventions were inextricably linked to pervasive fears of depopulation and underpopulation, but that their implementation was often hampered by weak state structures, internal conflicts and multiple forms of African agency. Coghe's fresh analysis of demography, health and migration in colonial Angola challenges common ideas of Portuguese colonial exceptionalism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sleeping sickness, depopulation anxieties and the emergence of population politics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tropical medicine and sleeping sickness control before 1918\u003cbr\u003e 3. Introducing social medicine: Inter-imperial learning and the Assistência Médica aos Indígenas in the interwar period\u003cbr\u003e 4. Re-assessing population decline: Medical demography and the tensions of statistical knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 5. Saving the children: Infant mortality and the politics of motherhood\u003cbr\u003e 6. The problem of migration: Depopulation anxieties, border politics and the tensions of empire\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Demography and population politics, 1945-1975\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of medicine [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20medicine%20%5BMBX%5D%22\"\u003eMBX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501087682840,"sku":"9781108932103","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108932103i.jpg?v=1786209256","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/population-politics-in-the-tropics-demography-health-and-transimperialism-in-colonial-angola-paperback-softback-9781108932103","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}