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9780821419328: The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge
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ISBN 10: 0821419323 ISBN 13: 9780821419328
Editorial: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010

Sinopsis

The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa&;s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.

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Karl Ittmann is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston. He is the author of Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England.

Dennis D. Cordell is a professor of history and adjunct professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is the coeditor of African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives.

Gregory H. Maddox is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and coauthor of Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance.

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Editorial
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0821419323
ISBN 13 
9780821419328
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
Editor
Ittmann Karl
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