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The Demographics of Empire : The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Demographics of EmpireDDC classification:
  • 304.6096
LOC classification:
  • HB3661.A3D439 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Counting Subjects: Demography and Empire -- One African Historical Demography in the Postmodern and Postcolonial Eras -- Two "Where Nature Dominates Man": Demographic Ideas and Policy in British Colonial Africa, 1890-1970 -- Three How to Count the Subjects of Empire? Steps toward an Imperial Demography in French West Africa before 1946 -- Four Makwerekwere: Separating Immigrants and Natives in Early Colonial Natal -- Five Counting and Recounting: Dislocation, Colonial Demography, and Historical Memory in Northern Gabon -- Six The Discourse of Overpopulation in Western Kenya and the Creation of the Pioneer Corps -- Seven Disease and Reproductive Health in Ujiji, Tanganyika: Colonial and Missionary Discourses Regarding Islam and a "Dying Population" -- Eight Disease and Environment in Africa: Imputed Dynamics and Unresolved Issues -- Nine Reproducing Labor: Colonial Government Regulation of African Women's Reproductive Lives -- Ten African Population: Projections, 1850-1960 -- List of Appendices -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries.
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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Counting Subjects: Demography and Empire -- One African Historical Demography in the Postmodern and Postcolonial Eras -- Two "Where Nature Dominates Man": Demographic Ideas and Policy in British Colonial Africa, 1890-1970 -- Three How to Count the Subjects of Empire? Steps toward an Imperial Demography in French West Africa before 1946 -- Four Makwerekwere: Separating Immigrants and Natives in Early Colonial Natal -- Five Counting and Recounting: Dislocation, Colonial Demography, and Historical Memory in Northern Gabon -- Six The Discourse of Overpopulation in Western Kenya and the Creation of the Pioneer Corps -- Seven Disease and Reproductive Health in Ujiji, Tanganyika: Colonial and Missionary Discourses Regarding Islam and a "Dying Population" -- Eight Disease and Environment in Africa: Imputed Dynamics and Unresolved Issues -- Nine Reproducing Labor: Colonial Government Regulation of African Women's Reproductive Lives -- Ten African Population: Projections, 1850-1960 -- List of Appendices -- Contributors -- Index.

The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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