The Demographics of Empire : The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
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.