Population Politics in the Tropics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108837866)

Population 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, Samu? 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.

Author: Samu? Coghe
ISBN-10: 1108837867
ISBN-13: 9781108837866
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d